Women in Good Shape

Reading Farhana Shahzady on ‘Menopause – turning the clock back for women’ ([2022] 2 FRJ 148) caused me to be even more fearful than usual about the progress of women’s equality, freedom, respect and opportunity in the workplace an…

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• Baroness Deech

!17/10/2022 10:42

Cryptoassets – Still an Enigma?

or Alice and Bob’s Adventures in Cryptoland: understanding the basics of crypto – a roadmap for the uninitiatedAs at October 2022, the time of writing this article, the market capital of Bitcoin is US$400 billion, down from a high of US$870 bi…

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• Crypto

• Ben Fearnley

!13/10/2022 12:51

Pound for Pound Orders: Are They Legal?

It is now over 20 years since Holman J, in A v A (Maintenance Pending Suit: Payment of Legal Fees) [2001] 1 FLR 377, recognised that a maintenance order could reasonably include a contribution towards the payment of legal fees. At the time he handed down…

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• Simon Calhaem

!13/10/2022 12:43

Predatory Marriage – The Great Inheritance Scam?

The term ‘predatory marriage’ is not a legal concept, but rather a convenient descriptor for a marriage entered into in circumstances where one party to the marriage is vulnerable and has been induced to enter into the marriage by the other pa…

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• Charlotte John

!13/10/2022 12:40

‘For Reasons Which Are Not Fanciful’ – Daniels v Walker Applications in Financial Remedy Cases

More than 22 years after it was decided, there remains no reported decision in a financial remedies case in which a court has provided guidance in relation to whether or not to grant a so-called Daniels v Walker [2000] EWCA Civ 508, [2000] 1 WLR 1382 appl…

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• Nicholas Allen KC

!13/10/2022 12:37

PAG2: The Continuing Work of the Pension Advisory Group

In July 2019, the Pension Advisory Group (PAG) was pleased to publish its report A Guide to the Treatment of Pensions on Divorce, partially funded by the Nuffield Foundation.https://www.nuffieldfoundation.org.">1 This publication was expressly endorsed in…

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• Pensions on Divorce

• Francis J
• HHJ Edward Hess | Chair of the Editorial Board

!13/10/2022 12:21

Chair's Column

I am delighted to commend to you the third issue of the Financial Remedies Journal (FRJ) which, without doubt, sustains the standards set in the earlier issues for providing information and debate on the big subjects topical in the financial remedies worl…

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• HHJ Edward Hess | Chair of the Editorial Board

!13/10/2022 12:19

Someone! Do Something About Costs! The Single Lawyer Solution

In an appendix to his judgment in the ruinous case of KSO v MJO & Ors [2008] EWHC 3031 (Fam), in which the parties managed to expend all but about 28% of the net assets in costs, Munby J returned us to Dickens’ excoriating passage in Bleak H…

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• Costs

• Harry Gates
• Samantha Woodham

!26/09/2022 14:29

Tech Corner: iPad Pro (2021) Review, Or, as a Solicitor, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love a Tablet

For as long as I can remember, an in-person attendance with family finance practitioners at the Bar has always been the first place for me to see the latest Apple releases in the wild. With apologies to younger readers who may not get the reference, I sti…

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• Tech Corner

• David Lillywhite

!06/07/2022 07:14