What Financial Remedy Lawyers Need to Know About Emojis ❓👨👩🤔🧐🌝

Emojis play a significant part in digital communications, including casual messaging, social media posts, and increasingly, professional communications. When we are reviewing historical messages, understanding what the emojis were intended to mean could become an essential part of identifying what was discussed and/or agreed at that time.

• Blog

• Interpretation

• Graeme Fraser

!15/11/2024 08:00

The End of the Non-Dom Tax Status: Time Now to End Family Law Domicile Jurisdiction

Domicile has been a fundamental basis of jurisdiction in English law including English family law. But it is intrinsically backward-looking, archaic in its concepts, thoroughly unknown or at best misunderstood by the population, differently defined abroad and at odds with many other countries including the EU. With the non-domicile tax status being abolished as announced in the budget in late October 2024, is it not time now to end domicile as a family law basis of jurisdiction? Nationality is a far more straightforward, certain and modern basis.

• Blog

• Jurisdiction
• Domicile

• Professor David Hodson OBE KC(Hons) MCIArb

!11/11/2024 11:48

Wells Sharing: Commonplace or a Matter of Last Resort?

The importance of the ‘clean break’ has been reemphasised in recent years with greater emphasis being placed on MCA 1973 s 25A (and s 28(1A)), particularly in the judgments of Mostyn J.

• Blog

• Wells Sharing
• Clean Breaks and Term Maintenance

• Nicholas Allen KC

!08/11/2024 17:00

A v M (No 3) [2024] EWFC 29925 October 2024

Cohen J. Application by H to strike out W’s application to set aside a final order in financial remedies proceedings on the ground of H’s misrepresentation.

• Cases

• Disclosure
• Conduct
• Striking Out Applications
• Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)

• Olivia Currie

Standish v Standish [2024] EWCA Civ 56723 May 2024

Landmark decision where Court of Appeal reduces W’s award by £20 million. Lord Justice Moylan, Lady Justice King and Lord Justice Phillips.

• Cases

• Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
• Sharing
• Gifts
• Matrimonialisation
• Tax
• Autonomy
• Trusts

• Sophia Paraskeva