Joe Rainer
Published: 13/01/2022 10:59
Joe is a junior barrister at QEB. He has a specialist matrimonial practice, with a focus on financial remedies and cases brought under TLATA 1996. He has appeared in several well-known reported cases and writes and lectures frequently on a variety of topics. He is a member of the Financial Remedies Journal editorial board, an editor of At A Glance, and a co-author of the fourth edition of Pensions On Divorce: A Practitioner’s Handbook. He is also a member of the Pension Advisory Group and the Duxbury Working Party.
Report of the Duxbury Working Party (provisional), September 2024
The Duxbury Working Party have just released their provisional report. It has been prepared without any prior public consultation and is published provisionally to allow interested parties to respond. Responses should be emailed to j.rainer@qeb.co.uk by 1 November 2024 and will be considered by the Working Party ahead of publication of their final report which is intended to be on 15 November 2024.
- Blog
- Duxbury Capitalisation
!02/10/2024 13:31
Costs
Readers of this publication will be familiar with the expressions of horror over costs in financial remedy proceedings from the High Court bench in recent years, culminating in adjectives like ‘nihilistic’ and ‘apocalyptic’. Mostyn J proclaimed that ‘something must be done’. Joseph Rainer offers a suggestion.
- Journal
!13/03/2024 07:00
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
Hasan, Statutory Construction, and the Barder Conundrum
By now there will be plenty of material online summarising the decision in Hasan and proffering some commentary. I appeared as junior counsel for the Respondents in the appeal (led by Andrzej Bojarski and Tim Amos KC, instructed by Expatriate Law). The Ap…
- Blog
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act
- Maintenance as a Cause of Action
!01/07/2023 14:21
A Beginner's Guide to Deferred Compensation (and Other Forms of Remuneration)
IntroductionFor most people earned income means periodic salary payments, received net of tax, from an employer. However, for a comparatively small cohort of people, earned ‘income’ can look a lot more complicated and uncertain. It might take…
- Journal
!01/04/2022 06:49
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