Principal Private Residence Relief on Divorce

When individuals stop living in the matrimonial home they are often likely to face a capital gains tax charge when the property is sold or transferred.Any individuals that have lived in a property as their main home are entitled to Principal Private Resid…

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• Sofia Thomas

!01/04/2022 06:07

Criminal Confiscation, Trusts of Land and Financial Remedies

BackgroundConvicted criminals may find themselves subject to confiscation applications and orders. These might be accompanied by a trust of land or financial remedy application, by a (perhaps not so) innocent applicant. How do confiscation proceedings wor…

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• Criminal Confiscation and Restraint Orders

• Christian Jowett

!01/04/2022 06:04

Private Alternative Dispute Resolution (pADR) – a Still Much Under-Used Process

A few introductory thoughts – the bigger pictureThe legal profession is notoriously slow at embracing change whether it is to the substantive law or, more often, to process. Every attempt to make the system work better and to the advantage of the pu…

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• Alternative Dispute Resolution

• Sir Paul Coleridge

!01/04/2022 05:57

Tech Corner: The Remarkable 2, for Family Lawyers?

We date ourselves with our I.T. My generation grew up on the ZX Spectrum, 48K. The noise of Jet Set Willy loading on a cassette tape is an iconic sound of my childhood. I graduated without ever having owned a PC. Hershman & McFarlane was famously birthed on a pair of Amstrad word processors. Mostyn, then a junior barrister, imagined the Form E into existence with an IBM PS/2 (720KB).

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• Rhys Taylor | Vice Chair of the Editorial Board & Journal Editor

!01/04/2022 05:54

Money Corner: Financial Protection and Divorce

The area of financial protection is one that most of us first come across when we are buying a house. The mortgage adviser will deftly remind us of all the things that might go wrong for our family if we were to become seriously ill or die. During my trai…

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• Tamsin Caine

!01/04/2022 05:52

Interview with Sir Jonathan Cohen

Rhys Taylor: Sir Jonathan, thank you very much for agreeing to be interviewed this evening for the Financial Remedies Journal.Can I please start by asking you, do you have any particular recollections from your early days at the Bar?Sir Jonathan Cohen: We…

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• Rhys Taylor | Vice Chair of the Editorial Board & Journal Editor

!01/04/2022 05:47