A Priceless Inheritance: Family Law, Open Justice and the Rule of Law

Sir Nicholas Mostyn presented on this topic at the Bar Council’s law reform lecture 2025, on 2 July 2025. This monograph is the property of Sir Nicholas Mostyn.

• Blog

• Sir Nicholas Mostyn

!03/07/2025 06:00

Standish v Standish [2025] UKSC 262 July 2025

Lord Burrows and Lord Stephens (with whom Lord Reed, Lord Lloyd-Jones and Lady Simler agree). The Supreme Court unanimously dismissed W’s appeal, upheld the Court of Appeal’s decision, and clarified application of the sharing principle and matrimonialisation.

• Cases

• Sharing Principle
• Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property

• Monique Simone Fremder

Non Court Dispute Resolution – What Difference Does a Year (and a Bit) Make?18 June 2025

Important revisions to both FPR Part 3 and Part 28 came into effect on 29 April 2024 when the material parts of the Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023 came into force.

• Blog

• NCDR

• Nicholas Allen KC

Is Duxbury Dead?

The Spring 2025 issue of this journal led off with the eagerly awaited, 21-page Final Report of the Duxbury Working Party. As one would expect from its distinguished authors, the report is engaging, well written and skilfully argued, but Peter Duckworth here explains his reasons for thinking that its conclusion – that we need to go on using the Duxbury model – is wrong.

• Journal

• Duxbury Capitalisation

• Peter Duckworth

!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.

• Journal

• Family Procedure Rules
• Single Joint Experts
• Experts
• Valuations

• Thomas Rodwell

!30/06/2025 06:00