Published: 07/04/2025 08:41
Grace-Mary Sweeney is a pupil at 1 King’s Bench Walk. Prior to joining 1KBW as a pupil, Grace-Mary worked as a paralegal at a London-based family law firm, specialising in financial remedy, private law children, and international matters. Grace-Mary also worked as a Judicial Assistant in the Family Division of the High Court. She worked as a Guest Teacher in Family Law at the London School of Economics (LSE).
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A fast-track pilot scheme for financial remedy cases is running from 7 April 2025 to 3 April 2026 in courts in the north of England. It applies by default to all cases started there where net assets (excluding pensions) are less than £250,000. It is possible to request to be removed from the express pilot and it will be interesting to follow the numbers of cases where that is granted.
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