James Turner KC (1952–2025): An Obituary

James Turner KC, who has died aged 72, was a titan of the bar. In an increasingly specialised legal world, he had a uniquely broad practice for a family barrister: financial remedies, child abduction, divorce, crime, judicial review, medical disciplinary work and administrative law.

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• Obituaries

• Alexander Chandler KC

!24/01/2025 10:42

Walton v Walton [2025] EWFC 16 (B)7 January 2025

HHJ Moreton. Committal proceedings following non-compliance with court orders. The offending party was sentenced to a period of imprisonment of 28 days, suspended until the conclusion of the financial remedy proceedings.

• Cases

• Committal Applications and Judgment Summonses

• Albert Gibbon

Schedule 1 Property Structures

The main focus in cases under Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989 is often on how to meet the housing needs of a child; understandably so, as it is usually the largest cost. It can also be the starting point for settlement as the type of property and loca…

• Journal

• Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications

• Jemma Pollock
• Rebecca Fisher
• Pieter Boodt

!06/07/2022 07:07

Child Maintenance and Mortgage Payments – New Guidance: LM v SSWP & NM [2024] UKUT 259 (AAC)

What happens if the Child Maintenance Service has determined that a non-resident parent is required to pay child maintenance to the parent-with-care, but payments are also being made towards the mortgage secured on the property in which PWC still lives with the qualifying child/children? Does it matter if the property is jointly owned by NRP and PWC? Will those mortgage payments reduce the amount of child maintenance?

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• Mortgages
• Child Maintenance

• Gwynfor Evans

!29/11/2024 06:00

The PAG2 Guide – What Has Changed?

The publication of the Pension Advisory Group (PAG2) guidance in December 2023 marked the end of another lengthy and significant piece of interdisciplinary work by experienced practitioners in the field of pensions on divorce. The aim of this piece is to focus just on the material changes in what is now referred to as the PAG2 guide.

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• Pensions on Divorce

• Paul Cobley
• Rhys Taylor | Vice Chair of the Editorial Board & Journal Editor

!22/01/2024 11:43