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…

• Journal

• 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…

• Journal

• 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…

• Journal

• Tech Corner

• David Lillywhite

!06/07/2022 07:14

Interview with Lord Sumption

Lord Sumption interviewed by Alexander Chandler QC.

• Journal

• Alexander Chandler KC

!06/07/2022 07:14

Financial Remedies Case Round-Up: February to April 2022

Cases from February to April 2022.

• Journal

• 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 …

• Journal

• 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…

• Journal

• 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…

• Journal

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

• Helen Brander

!06/07/2022 07:13