Journal
Book Review: Quiet Revolutionaries
Dr Andy Hayward reviews Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women’s Association and Family Law, by Sharon Thompson (Hart Publishing, 2022).
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- Book Review
!27/03/2023 09:54
Money Corner: Did the 2022 Permacrisis Reduce Your Client’s Pension Credit?
2022, a year that we all hoped would usher in a return to normal following the COVID-19 pandemic, turned out to be full of seismic shifts, and it was certainly a stark reminder that the value of investments can go down as well as up. Investors had to face…
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- Money Corner
!27/03/2023 09:52
Tech Corner: Choosing Tech that Will Transform the Way You Work
Non-essential office tech that can transform your work. How to sort the tech needs from the tech thneeds.The Lorax, you’ll know exactly what I mean, if not: ‘A thing that is not required yet is purchased in great amounts anyways’ (www.ur…
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- Productivity
- Efficiency
- Tech Corner
- Making Sense of Documents
- Workflow
!27/03/2023 09:51
DR Corner: The Drive for Gender Diversity in Private FDRs
Pressures on court time and the increasing use of remote courts over the COVID-19 pandemic have led to the increasing popularity and success of Private FDRs within (and instead of) financial remedy proceedings within the last 5 years.A Private FDR is a &l…
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- Efficient Conduct
- FDRs
- arbitration
- divorce
- Financial Remedies Court (FRC)
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Financial Remedies
- DR Corner
- First Appointments
- Private FDR
- Unconscious Bias
- Diversity
!27/03/2023 09:50
Litigation Funding – A Brief Overview
Funding family law litigation is a complex process. It should be seen in the context of most family law proceedings operating on the basis of each party paying their own legal costs, with costs orders rarely being available save for litigation misconduct.…
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!27/03/2023 09:49
Fair Shares? Sorting Out Money and Property on Divorce
For the 100,000 couples who divorce annually in England and Wales, the financial arrangements they make can determine the future standard of living that they and their children will have. Yet, only a third of them use the legal system to reach a financial settlement, with the remaining two-thirds negotiating their own arrangements or, worse, reaching no settlement at all. Despite numerous calls to reform the law on this issue, very little is known about the detail of how couples negotiate settlements, or of how these work out.
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- Property
- divorce
!27/03/2023 09:45
An Overview of the Benefits System
Lloyd George, determined to ‘lift the shadow of the workhouse from the homes of the poor’, sought to provide a guaranteed income to the old and infirm.All wage-earners contributed to a health scheme, in return for benefits.Sounds simple. But w…
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- Non-Means Tested
- Universal Credit
- Means Tested
- Welfare Benefits
!27/03/2023 09:44
The Interplay Between Welfare Benefits and Financial Remedy Orders – A Practitioner’s View
It is now 10 years since the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) came into force. Reflecting back, the obvious impact on my firm’s practice has been the reduction in the number of financial remedy cases we deal with wh…
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- Low Income Cases
- State Benefits
- Universal Credit
!27/03/2023 09:41
The Impact of LASPO on Access to Justice – A View from Law for Life
This year will see the 10th anniversary of the implementation of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO).In 2017, the Law Society reviewed the impact of the changes introduced in 2013 and found:legal aid is no longer availab…
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- Advicenow
- Access to Justice
- LASPO
- Legal Information
- Law for Life
- Litigants in Person
!27/03/2023 09:40
Ten Years on from LASPO – An On-the-Ground Perspective from Support Through Court
We empower litigants in personEvery year, thousands of people in the United Kingdom face court alone. Often through no choice of their own, they must represent themselves at a moment that could determine the rest of their life. They may face divorce, evic…
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!27/03/2023 09:30