Alex Laing
Published: 03/04/2024 10:24
Alex Laing is a family barrister at Coram Chambers.
Alex represented the Lord Chancellor as the sole family counsel, led by Sir James Eadie KC and Sarah Hannett KC in The Lord Chancellor v 79 Divorced Couples [2024] EWHC 3211 (Fam).
The Lord Chancellor v 79 Divorced Couples: A Pirate’s Tale
At the end of term, the High Court handed down judgment in a challenging case, whose solution lay in the application of a much-forgotten 53-year-old judgment of the ‘pirate-like’ Sir Jocelyn Simon P to seemingly irresolvable issues caused by errors in the digitalisation of the divorce process.
- Blog
- divorce
!06/01/2025 11:03
Single and Joint: Peel J Discusses Expert Evidence in BR v BR [2024] EWFC 11
In BR v BR [2024] EWFC 11, Peel J took the opportunity, in his role as head of the FRC, to ‘do a written judgment as one or two points of principle arise’. Specifically: the use of single joint experts in financial remedy proceedings. This is an important decision informing family lawyers how cases should be conducted.
- Blog
- Single Joint Experts
- SJE
!03/04/2024 10:25
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