Alexander Chandler KC
Published: 13/01/2022 10:58
Alexander Chandler KC is a barrister specialising in financial remedies and TLATA at 1 King’s Bench Walk in London. He sits as a Recorder, Arbitrator and private FDR judge, posts blogs at familybrief.org, and tweets @familybrief.
The Winds of Change – Case Management and the Financial Remedies Court
Once upon a time, not so long ago, ‘ancillary relief’ was something of a legal backwater. Cases were determined solely by reference to ‘reasonable requirements’. Procedural rules, to the extent they existed, were short and loosely applied. Parties filed narrative affidavits of means and answered requests for further and better particulars.
- Journal
- Procedure
- Financial Remedies
!22/11/2024 06:00
What’s the Point of a Judgment? Examples, Authorities and the Panopticon
What is the point of a court judgment, and to whom is it actually directed? In the past, there were three main reasons for a judgment: the first two concern the parties and (depending on your views about transparency) could be dealt with privately; the third, when it arose, required publication of the judgment. Now there is a fourth reason: transparency.
- Blog
- Transparency
!02/05/2024 15:48
‘What’s In a Name?’ Anonymising Financial Remedy Judgments
How engrained is the practice of anonymisation in financial remedy judgments? What rationale was given in those cases for naming the parties or anonymisation? What is the author's view of the legal issues in relation to anonymity? How will these issues pan out?
- Journal
- Anonymity
!13/03/2024 07:00
What Is the True Extent of FDR Privilege?
In L v O (Stay of Order; Hadkinson Order; Security for Costs) [2024] EWFC 6 (26 January 2024) Cobb J considered whether a judge hearing a Barder (or Thwaite) application can/should be made aware of what took place at the FDR appointment where the original order was agreed and where this may be relevant to 'foreseeability'.
- Blog
- Privilege
!19/02/2024 16:04
Two Important Cases in One Day: Churchill v Merthyr Tydfil and TUI v Griffiths
As the old saying goes, you wait ages for a London bus; then two arrive at once: Griffiths & Churchill.
- Blog
- Blog
- Out of Court Dispute Resolution Options
- Experts
!30/11/2023 17:15
Final Hearings: a User’s Guide
This article is intended as aide memoire of the various procedural, professional and legal rules that should be borne in mind at a final hearing. It is not intended as a counsel of perfection, but rather a reminder of certain things which we do not encounter on a weekly basis.
- Blog
- Family Procedure Rules
!26/10/2023 07:00
How Private FDRs Can Be Improved
As family lawyers, we are good at some things; less so at others. Our strong suit is thinking creatively and holistically in finding a solution to any given case. We are comfortable with the concept of discretion; or at least we become so after a few years' experience of how the courts actually deal with financial remedy claims.
- Blog
- Private FDR
!12/05/2023 22:44
Have We Been Getting It Wrong for the Past 75 Years? Privacy, Secrecy and the Financial Remedies Court
The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley starts with one of the most celebrated opening lines in literature:‘The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.’Historically, the same could be said of the Family Division, where a husband or…
- Blog
- Publicity and Confidentiality
!22/11/2022 17:00
Interview with Lord Sumption
Lord Sumption interviewed by Alexander Chandler QC.
- Journal
!06/07/2022 07:14
BT v CU [2021] EWFC 87: Barder, Thwaite, Drafting Lump Sums and Anonymisation
Sometimes in law, as in life, things do not turn out expectedly.BT v CU was intended to be a test case for whether COVID was capable of being a Barder event. H’s argument was that the pandemic was ‘unforeseen and unforeseeable’, outside…
- Journal
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
!01/04/2022 06:14
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