Interview with Lord Sumption

Lord Sumption interviewed by Alexander Chandler QC.

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• Alexander Chandler KC

!06/07/2022 07:14

Financial Remedies Case Round-Up: February to April 2022

Cases from February to April 2022.

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• HHJ Edward Hess | Chair of the Editorial Board
• Henry Pritchard

!06/07/2022 07:14

Money Corner: Pension Taxation - A Tax on Ambition is Never Wise

Pension classification – Most pension arrangements will be either one, or a hybrid, of the following arrangements: Defined contribution (DC) (also known as ‘money purchase’); the retirement benefits (or income) are defined by the contributions you make.

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• Rachael Hall

!06/07/2022 07:14

DR Corner: Mediation in the Wake of WL v HL – Low-Hanging Fruit or Golden Opportunity?

Traditional perceptions of mediation: ‘[M]ediated cases are self-evidently the easiest to settle; the low fruit of the dispute resolution world. Quite rightly this will always remain so. But my nagging concern about the mediation process remains; that …

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• DR Corner

• Edward Cooke

!06/07/2022 07:13

Menopause – Turning the Clock Back for Women?

Earlier this year, with the help of Family Law Partners, I launched the Family Law Menopause Project. It had the straightforward aim of encouraging family lawyers to consider the impact of menopause on clients.I was prepared for curiosity and healthy scep…

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• Farhana Shahzady

!06/07/2022 07:13

Dodgy Digital Documents: Where Are We Now? Where Are We Going?

In the sun-kissed, halcyon days of late 2019 when Brexit had not yet taken effect and a corona was a halo of gas seen around the sun during an eclipse, a fevered discussion was taking place on Twitter between family lawyers regarding the increasing freque…

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• Disclosure
• Digital
• Documents
• Fraud
• Evidence
• Manipulation
• Fake

• Helen Brander

!06/07/2022 07:13

Security for Costs in Family Proceedings

In MG v AR [2021] EWHC 3063 (Fam), Mostyn J made an order providing security for costs. Such orders are more frequently made in civil proceedings, where ‘costs follow the event’ and costs orders are made in favour of the successful party. An a…

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• Security for costs
• Costs

• Elissa Da-Costa Waldman

!06/07/2022 07:13

Mltpl: A New Business Valuation Tool

Business valuations are often associated with high costs, long delays and, in many instances, subjective analysis and unsupported conclusions. Inevitably, questions arise as to their utility, given their inherent fragility.

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• AI
• Experts
• Automation
• Valuations
• Forensic Accountants

• Thomas Rodwell
• Ben McGeoch

!06/07/2022 07:12

Getting Blood Out of a Stone – Handling the Uncooperative Ex-Spouse

Sadly, what follows is not an uncommon scenario. Hotly contested divorce proceedings result in an order being made that requires one spouse to make financial payments to the other over a period of months or years.Everyone breathes a sigh of relief that th…

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• Simon Rowe

!06/07/2022 07:11

The Origins of the Financial Remedies Court – an Insider’s View (Part 2)

On 29 October 2018, the President announced that, following further consultation, he had given the ‘green light’ for the pilot to start working in each of the additional eight courts I had identified: Financial Remedies Pilot extended [2018] F…

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• Sir James Munby

!06/07/2022 07:10