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‘Feral, Unprincipled and Unnecessarily Expensive’ – A Guide to Intervenor Claims
Intervenor claims take us – family lawyers – out of our comfort zone. As financial remedy (FR) specialists we are used to dealing with discretion and grey areas: the assessment of housing and income need, where to draw the line between marital and non-marital assets, how to reflect pre-marital contributions. The proverbial bad day in court may produce an outcome at the bottom end of a bracket but it generally won’t mean the entire claim is dismissed.
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- Intervenors
!30/06/2025 06:00
Justice that Heals: Lessons from Singapore’s Family Justice System
In the early 19th century, Britain was importing tea from China and financing the trade by illegally exporting opium (grown in British-controlled India) to China. The British East India Company required a port along the India–China maritime route to support this ‘commerce’ and to counter growing Dutch influence in Southeast Asia.
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- English Family Law Reform
- Cross-Border Family Law
- Singapore Family Law
- NCDR
- Family Law Reform
- Therapeutic Justice
!30/06/2025 06:00
Two Heads, Better than One? BR v BR, in Light of BR v BR (No 2) and Vince v Vince
In his judgment in BR v BR [2024] EWFC 11, [2024] 2 FLR 217, Peel J emphasised at [17](i) that ‘[w]herever possible’ the instruction of a single joint expert (SJE) is the ‘default position’ and at [17](ii) that a ‘high degree of justification’ is required for two parties to instruct their own experts.
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- Family Procedure Rules
- Single Joint Experts
- Experts
- Valuations
!30/06/2025 06:00
Important Recent Case Developments (Mid-January 2025 to mid-May 2025)
These are the noteworthy case-law developments since the last issue went to press in January 2025.
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!30/06/2025 06:00
Money Corner: All A Bit Unnecessary
‘Tax doesn’t have to be taxing’ was the slogan that HMRC used 20 years ago to raise awareness about the system of Self-Assessment, but some of the recent developments around tax and divorce have me scratching my head about this maxim.
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- Capital Gains Tax
- Money Corner
- Tax
!30/06/2025 06:00
Flo, FI v DO and the Future: Dogs on Divorce
Meet Flo. She is my Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. I know I am biased, but she is beautiful and is a key member of my family. I bought her with my very first pay cheque from my work as a barrister and she has been with me ever since. She is my trusty companion.
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- Chattels
- divorce
- Pets
- FI v DO
- Dogs
!30/06/2025 06:00
DR Corner: Thinking Outside the Box – Two Different Forms of NCDR
On a number of occasions when sitting, Stephen heard Dr Freda Gardner, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, say in evidence as an expert witness: ‘the issues in this family should never have developed to a point where this litigation became necessary’. Then, one day, they met outside the court environment, and he asked her how she thought that issues in complex family cases might be resolved better.
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- Working Together
- Psychologist
- NCDR
- DR Corner
- Settlement Meetings
!30/06/2025 06:00
Partnering Up: Partnership Law and Financial Remedy Proceedings
The Department for Business & Trade’s most recent Business Population Estimates suggested that there are approximately 356,000 ordinary partnerships currently trading within the United Kingdom, generating a turnover of just under £1 billion. The majority of these are small enterprises involving either no or fewer than ten employees.
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- Partnerships
- Farms and Country Estates
- Expert Business Valuations
- Financial Accounts
- Business
- Business Assets
- Property
- Business Valuation
!30/06/2025 06:00
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DOWNLOAD 2025 ISSUE 2 – Summer 2025 (PDF)
2025 Issue 2 (Summer 2025) is now available to download and read as a PDF. Click to download.
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!30/06/2025 06:00
Book Review: International Family Law Handbook (Resolution, 2025)
The International Family Law Handbook is an indispensable resource for all family practitioners. Written and edited by Resolution’s International Committee, it draws on the experience and expertise of an impressive list of authors including solicitors, barristers, judges and academics, many of whom also either practice or are qualified in other jurisdictions including Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, Australia, Switzerland and the UAE.
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- International Family Law
- Book Review
!30/06/2025 06:00
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