Journal
Second Six at the Financial Remedies Bar – A Survival Guide
There is no perfect way to approach being ‘on your feet’ and completing your second six. Your first day in court will inevitably be one of the most exciting but equally terrifying moments of your career. However, through this article, we hope to share our ten top tips: those things we have learned during our (very) short time ‘on our feet’ over the past year that helped us survive and enjoy our second sixes at the financial remedies Bar.
- Journal
- Pupillages
- Preparing For Practice
- Second Six
!30/06/2025 06:00
Bad Behaviour and Broken Bonds: A Comparison of Conduct in 1973 and 1975 Act Claims
Fifty years ago, the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 was enacted in an expansion of the court’s statutory powers for financial provision on death.
- Journal
- Inheritance Act Applications
- Conduct
- Succession
- Inheritance
!30/06/2025 06:00
The Approach of the Family Court to Musicians’ Proprietary Interests
In 2001 Bob Dylan wrote ‘I always said you’d be sorry and today could be the day, I might need a good lawyer, Could be your funeral, my trial’. The bard is often right. Where a financial remedy case involves a musician, it is likely that they will hold some form of proprietary interest in the music they have created. This can create a complex position in fact and law.
- Journal
- Musician Divorce Assets
- Divorce and Music Copyright
- Valuation of Music Assets in Divorce
- Financial Remedy Music Rights
!30/06/2025 06:00
The Challenges of Dealing with Overseas Pensions on Divorce
Pension rights that have been accrued in overseas territories by divorcing parties present a number of challenges for practitioners where proceedings take place within this jurisdiction. This article explores some of the pitfalls that might arise and the issues that practitioners need to consider.
- Journal
- Pensions
- PAG
- Overseas
!30/06/2025 06:00
Class Legal Financial Remedies Awards 2025
Ten years ago, Class Legal staged its inaugural financial remedies conference, the At A Glance Conference. Retitled this year as the Financial Remedies Conference, it remains the finest such conference in the calendar. This year’s, to be held on 16 October 2025 at Pullman London St Pancras, promises to be possibly the best yet with a stellar array of contributors.
- Journal
!20/06/2025 12:30
Re-multiplied Propagation
In this article Sir Nicholas Mostyn refers to those financial remedy cases heard in private to which s 12 Administration of Justice Act 1960 does not apply as mainstream financial remedy cases. As is well-known, s 12 imposes an automatic restriction on publishing the details of any financial remedy case which is mainly about child maintenance. The great majority of financial remedy cases are not protected by s 12.
- Journal
- Transparency
- Privacy
- Reporting
!28/05/2025 10:00
Tech Corner: Miris Reporting – Innovative Technology to Help Solicitors Prepare, Verify and Negotiate Client Housing Needs
This article reviews how solicitors currently fulfil the filing requirements of the 2022 Statement on the Efficient Conduct of Financial Remedy Hearings in the Financial Remedies Court below High Court Judge Level (the Efficiency Statement).
- Journal
- Tech Corner
- Housing Need
- Efficient Conduct
- Borrowing Capacity Material
!21/05/2025 10:00
Trusts in Financial Remedy Proceedings
When studying for my A level in English literature I never quite worked out who Myrtle Brown was, nor whether Laurel was her sister or Ivy Neversere a friend of theirs. In History I studied the period when Milton was writing but I never found their names mentioned in the history books either.
- Journal
- Sharing Principle
- Financial Remedies
- Trusts
!18/03/2025 06:00
Betting the Farm
In an area of law that has many dedicated sub-genres, few are perceived as being as abstruse and esoteric as the idea of the ‘farming case’. The term is rolled out with such precision and certainty that one could be forgiven for expecting a separate section of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 to have been dedicated to its operation.
- Journal
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Nuptial Settlements
- Farms
- Autumn 2024 Budget
- Taxation
- Farming Case
!18/03/2025 06:00
Family BarLink: The CFC Pro Bono Duty Scheme
Restrictions in the provision of legal aid following the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 have resulted in a sharp increase in the number of individuals unable to access legal advice and services in family proceedings. The public’s reduced access to legal services is not only detrimental to the individual, who is forced to navigate stressful and emotionally fraught proceedings alone, but also to the represented party.
- Journal
- Access to Justice
- Pro Bono
- Litigants in Person
!18/03/2025 06:00
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