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Budget Implications for Financial Remedies
It was a relatively quiet budget yesterday in terms of the changes that will impact financial remedy proceedings. The main headlines are the pension changes and the confirmation that the new CGT rules for divorcing couples, which look set to come in from…
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!16/03/2023 16:35
Case Management Tables: Aide Memoire
Below are two case management tables which set out the procedure for use in all financial remedy applications below High Court level. They have been kindly prepared by Nicholas Allen KC and Daniel Mutton at 29 Bedford Row. Both tables seek to provide a co…
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- Case Management
!11/03/2023 13:58
Building a Movement for Cohabitation Reform in England and Wales
Calls to reform the legal regulation of unmarried cohabitants are not new. In August 2022, the Women and Equalities Committee proposed comprehensive reform, including opt-out protections on relationship breakdown, as well as reform of intestacy law. All t…
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- Cohabitation
!03/03/2023 13:05
Economic Abuse as ‘Conduct’
The Domestic Abuse Act 2021 (‘DAA 2021’) which came into force on 1 October 2021 created statutory definitions of specific forms of abusive behaviour. ‘Economic abuse’ is defined in s 1(4) as ‘any behaviour that has a substantial adverse effect on B’…
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- Economic Abuse
- Conduct
!24/02/2023 18:50
Cryptocurrency and Taxation
This blog post aims to highlight some of the tax considerations in ‘crypto cases’. It hopes to act as a complementary piece to the earlier article by Ben Fearnley, 'Cryptoassets – Still an Enigma'.
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- Crypto
!21/02/2023 13:44
The Compensation Principle and Remuneration for Career ‘Sacrifice’ – TM v KM [2022] EWFC 155
The compensation principle made a surprising reappearance in the case of TM v KM [2022] EWFC 155, where HHJ Hess made an order for the wife to receive £500,000 by way of compensation for the 'relationship-generated sacrifice' that she made in giving up her lucrative career in investment banking.
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- Compensation Principle
!10/02/2023 23:20
Financial Remedy – Online Portal
As of 31 January 2023 – Mandation Day – all applications for a financial remedy must be submitted and managed using the online portal. There will be a transition period to 28 February 2023 when applications on paper will continue to be processed but after…
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!03/02/2023 14:56
Things lawyers believe they know, but sometimes don’t – the ‘without prejudice rule’
Recent experience in practice shows that there remains at times some real misunderstanding within the profession as to when before the court it is permissible to refer to a ‘without prejudice’ offer made between parties and when it is not.
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- Without Prejudice
!25/01/2023 14:24
Crypto – Update
The Law Commission's work on digital assets continues.
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- Crypto
!18/01/2023 09:00
Family Justice: Ostiis Apertis? Or a mantle of inviolable secrecy? A challenge to those who would keep the doors closed
Sir James Munby takes stock of important developments since the President published the outcome of his Transparency Review: Confidence and Confidentiality: Transparency in the Family Courts.
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- Transparency
!12/01/2023 15:51
