Jennifer Lee
Published: 01/03/2022 02:59
Jennifer Lee is a specialist family law practitioner at Pump Court Chambers. She has a thriving practice in the area of family finance, and has successfully represented high net worth clients in cases involving family businesses, inherited wealth, substantial pensions, nuptial agreements, and trusts. Many of her cases also involve foreign assets, tax complications, and cross jurisdictional issues, such as the validity or otherwise of an overseas marriage or divorce, or competing claims in multiple jurisdictions (including cases pertaining to Asia and Africa).
Jennifer has appeared in a number of high-profile reported cases, most notably in Veluppillai v Veluppillai & Ors [2015] EWHC 3095 (Fam) (High Court), in LFL v LSL (McKenzie Friends & Breach of Court Orders) [2017] EWFC B62, and more recently, in N v N (Afghanistan: Validity of an overseas marriage: Procedure) [2020] EWFC B55.
Over the years, Jennifer has also developed an interest in the Court of Protection, particularly where there are overlaps with divorce/financial claims, and in complex children law including surrogacy/modern families. She leads the Court of Protection Team with Leslie Samuels QC.
Jennifer was appointed as a Fee-Paid Judge of the First-tier Tribunal (Tax Chamber) in 2021. She continues to be ranked as a “Leading Junior (Tier 1)- Family and Children Law” in The Legal 500, and as a specialist in “family/matrimonial law” in Chambers & Partners (UK Bar). She has been highly commended for her attention to detail and her robust approach, both in negotiations and during hearings. She regularly appears in arbitrations and private FDRs, and sits as a private FDR judge in Chambers.
"Jennifer is a member of the FLBA, LAWASIA, and Resolution. She sits on Resolution’s ED&I Committee. Jennifer is also an active member of Chambers, and sits on the Family Team Action Committee, and the Pupillage & Tenancy Committee. She regularly presents seminars and contributes to various publications on topical family law matters.”
The Autumn 2024 Budget: A Summary of the Key Reforms for Financial Remedy Practitioners
In the Autumn Budget 2024 Rachel Reeves, our first female Chancellor of the Exchequer, set out arguably the biggest tax changes for a generation, set to raise taxes by £41bn by 2029/30 and said to be part of the Government’s plan to revitalise Britain. This article summarises the key reforms of the Budget, highlighting those which may be of particular relevance to financial remedy practitioners and their clients.
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!01/11/2024 14:58
Resolution’s Report on Domestic Abuse in Financial Remedy Proceedings: An Overview of the Key Findings and Recommendations
This blog piece has been timed to coincide with the publication, on 8 October 2024, of the report by Resolution on ‘Domestic Abuse in Financial Remedy Proceedings’. This groundbreaking report delves into the interplay between domestic abuse and the treatment of finances on separation and divorce/dissolution, and how domestic abuse is addressed in other financial proceedings.
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- Domestic Abuse
!08/10/2024 12:45
Impact of Conduct on Needs
In exercising its powers in financial remedy proceedings, the court is required to have regard to the ‘conduct of each of the parties if that conduct is such that it would in the opinion of the court be inequitable to disregard it’: s 25(2)(g) Matrimonial Causes Act 1973.
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- Conduct
- Needs
!01/07/2024 07:00
Fabricated Judicial Decisions and ‘Hallucinations’ – a Salutary Tale on the Use of AI
The Information Commissioner’s Office defines Artificial Intelligence (AI) as ‘an umbrella term for a range of algorithm-based technologies that solve complex tasks by carrying out functions that previously required human thinking’. There can be no doubt that the use of AI within the legal market is growing rapidly.
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- AI
!21/03/2024 05:54
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Potanina (Respondent) v Potanin (Appellant) [2024] UKSC 331 January 2024
By a majority of three to two, the Supreme Court allowed the husband’s appeal. Lord Leggatt gave the leading judgment, with which Lord Lloyd-Jones and Lady Rose agreed. Lord Briggs gave a dissenting judgment, with which Lord Stephens agreed.
- Cases
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act
Hasan – The Barder Conundrum – A Final Word (We Promise)
The Supreme Court's judgment in Hasan was handed down on 28 June 2023. Most readers will by now be at least peripherally aware of what the case was about. This article is to some extent a continuation of a blog post written by one of the authors for this publication in July 2023.
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- Barder Applications
!21/11/2023 07:00
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Unger and another (in substitution for Hasan) (Appellants) v Ul-Hasan (deceased) and another (Respondents) [2023] UKSC 2228 June 2023
The Supreme Court has unanimously dismissed the appeal brought by the wife, Nafisa Hasan, against the magisterial and potentially seminal judgment of Mostyn J in Hasan v Ul-Hasan (Deceased) & Anor [2021] EWHC 1791 (Fam).
- Cases
- Barder Applications
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act
- Maintenance as a Cause of Action
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
Hasan v Ul-Hasan (deceased) & Anor [2021] EWHC 1791 (Fam): The Implications of Death on Divorce and Financial Remedies
'In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.' -- Benjamin Franklin, November 1817'Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.' -- Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, 1936IntroductionThe d…
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- divorce
!01/03/2022 09:00
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