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Open Offers: Achieving More or Seeking Less
The obligation on parties to negotiate openly and reasonably within financial remedy proceedings – and the consequences of not doing so – are well known. They were perhaps set out most clearly in OG v AG [2021] 1 FLR 1105 per Mostyn J.
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- Open Offers
- Negotiations
!04/11/2024 09:19
The Autumn 2024 Budget: A Summary of the Key Reforms for Financial Remedy Practitioners
In the Autumn Budget 2024 Rachel Reeves, our first female Chancellor of the Exchequer, set out arguably the biggest tax changes for a generation, set to raise taxes by £41bn by 2029/30 and said to be part of the Government’s plan to revitalise Britain. This article summarises the key reforms of the Budget, highlighting those which may be of particular relevance to financial remedy practitioners and their clients.
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!01/11/2024 14:58
No Special Favours: Litigants in Person and the Financial Remedies Court
Although not impacted in the same way as private law children proceedings by the restrictions on access to justice brought about the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012, which came into force on 1 April 2013, there are many parties who represent themselves in financial remedy proceedings, sometimes due to cost and sometimes by choice.
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- Litigants in Person
!23/10/2024 10:35
GH v GH – FDRs Are Not to Be Dispensed With
If ever there were any doubts as to the importance of the FDR appointment and the parties’ attendance at one, then Mr Justice Peel has unequivocally put those doubts to rest in his judgment in GH v GH [2024] EWHC 2547 (Fam).
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- FDRs
!21/10/2024 22:38
A 40-Year Revolution in Financial Remedies
Mr Justice Moor considers the fundamental transformation of financial remedy work since he undertook his first ever case on 19 July 1983 in the Edmonton County Court, just over 41 years ago.
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- At A Glance
!16/10/2024 11:11
At A Glance Conference 2024: Conference Report
A report from the At A Glance Conference 2024, the flagship financial remedy conference which took place on Wednesday 9 October 2024, chaired by Peel J.
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- At A Glance
!16/10/2024 11:00
At A Glance Conference 2024: Live Updates
Minute-by-minute updates from the 2024 At A Glance Conference, as it happened.
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- At A Glance
!16/10/2024 09:48
AI and Family Law
AI has the real likelihood of transforming the practice of family law solicitors more than the major conceptual changes from the Children Act, the seismic shift from White or the speed of response needed from lis pendens of EU law – a transformation which will happen fast even in the slow-moving, conservative legal profession.
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- AI
!14/10/2024 13:05
Resolution’s Report on Domestic Abuse in Financial Remedy Proceedings: An Overview of the Key Findings and Recommendations
This blog piece has been timed to coincide with the publication, on 8 October 2024, of the report by Resolution on ‘Domestic Abuse in Financial Remedy Proceedings’. This groundbreaking report delves into the interplay between domestic abuse and the treatment of finances on separation and divorce/dissolution, and how domestic abuse is addressed in other financial proceedings.
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- Domestic Abuse
!08/10/2024 12:45
Delaying a Divorce Because of Financial Prejudice: The New No-fault Law and Practice
There can be real loss and prejudice in some divorce cases if the final divorce order, previously the decree absolute, is granted before the final financial settlement and its implementation in circumstances when the paying party then dies.
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- Journal
- divorce
!07/10/2024 22:10
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