Helen Brander
Published: 11/05/2022 12:26
Helen is a barrister and arbitrator at Pump Court Chambers working in the fields of matrimonial finance and inheritance, trusts and estates. She complements that with private Children Act 1989 work. She writes and lectures frequently on matters of interest, including document manipulation, cryptoassets, financial provision for adult children and issues arising in TLATA and proprietary estoppel. She has a particular interest in Italian law and culture.
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Evidencing Earning Capacity: Expert Assessments with Potential for both Cooperation and Conflict
Embarking on divorce proceedings is not just the end of one chapter of life but the start of a new one. Judges determining applications for financial remedies on divorce or dissolution of civil partnership aim to ensure that the former spouses are each on as stable a financial footing as possible as they enter into that new chapter.
- Journal
- Earning Capacity
!01/07/2024 07:00
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Securing Property Situated Outside the Jurisdiction of England and Wales for the Benefit of Minor Children
Readers may not be familiar with an issue that has occasionally troubled the courts: the exercise of parental responsibility by a parent of a minor child to secure for the child’s benefit property, assets or income to which the child is entitled and which is situated outside the court’s jurisdiction in a foreign land.
- Journal
- Overseas Assets
- Property
!13/03/2024 07:00
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Cryptoasset Fraud and Recovery - Disclosure and Constructive Trusteeship Through Knowledge / Assistance: The (Financial) Empire Strikes Back
Since HHJ Pelling KC was persuaded to make, amongst other orders, without notice Bankers Trust Orders against two Binance entities in 2021 requiring them to disclose their Know Your Customer details of those alleged to have committed a fraud against the Claimant, there have been many subsequent applications for similar orders against cryptoasset exchanges brought by those who have suffered fraudulent deprivation of their assets.
- Blog
- Crypto
!31/05/2023 10:57
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Dodgy Digital Documents: Where Are We Now? Where Are We Going?
In the sun-kissed, halcyon days of late 2019 when Brexit had not yet taken effect and a corona was a halo of gas seen around the sun during an eclipse, a fevered discussion was taking place on Twitter between family lawyers regarding the increasing freque…
- Journal
- Disclosure
- Digital
- Documents
- Fraud
- Evidence
- Manipulation
- Fake
!06/07/2022 07:13