Nicholas Allen KC
Published: 13/01/2022 10:53
Barrister and Joint Head of Chambers at 29 Bedford Row (London). Door Tenant at St. Ives (Birmingham). IFLA arbitrator and PFDR/ENE tribunal. Appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2018 and a Deputy High Court Judge in 2021 (previously Recorder of the Family Court from 2016). Bencher of the Middle Temple. Editor of the family law chapters of Foskett on Compromise (Ninth Edition, 2019). Regular lecturer including at the Judicial College. Co-Chair of the Bar Council’s Services Appointment Panel. Trustee of FreeBar, a network promoting LGBT+ equality and inclusion.
The Revised Standard Family Court Orders – In with the New
The standard orders project has a long history. The then President (Sir James Munby) first appointed a drafting group in 2013 under the leadership of Mostyn J to produce a comprehensive set of orders that it was intended would become mandatory in the Family Court and the Family Division…
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- Standard Family Orders
!18/05/2023 04:37
Interview with Sir Mathew Thorpe
Sir Mathew Thorpe, Barrister from 1961, in silk from 1980, Family Division Judge (1988–95), Lord Justice of Appeal (1995–2013) and Deputy Head of Family Justice and Head of International Family Justice (2005–13). Sir Mathew was interview…
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- Interview
!27/03/2023 11:03
Omissions, Ambiguities and Deficiencies – Seeking Clarification of a Judge’s Reasoning
‘All judgments are capable of improvement’ observed Peter Jackson LJ in Re O (A Child: Judgment: Adequacy of Reasons) [2021] EWCA Civ 149 at [70]. As a consequence, the appropriate scope of seeking ‘clarification’ of a draft judgme…
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!27/03/2023 09:08
Myerson No. 1 and FPR 9.17(2): What Can the FDR Judge Actually Do?
There has long been disagreement over what an FDR judge can – and cannot – do where agreement has not been reached between the parties and, in particular, whether he or she can (and if so should) make directions for a final hearing.By virtue of FPR 9.17(2…
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- FDRs
!09/01/2023 23:53
‘For Reasons Which Are Not Fanciful’ – Daniels v Walker Applications in Financial Remedy Cases
More than 22 years after it was decided, there remains no reported decision in a financial remedies case in which a court has provided guidance in relation to whether or not to grant a so-called Daniels v Walker [2000] EWCA Civ 508, [2000] 1 WLR 1382 appl…
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!13/10/2022 12:37
'A Matter of Clarification' – Written Questions to Experts
A party’s ability to put written questions to an expert – both one instructed by another party or a single joint expert – is provided for by FPR 25.10. The rule dictates that questions put to an expert must inter alia both be 'proportionate' (r.25(2)(a))…
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- Experts
!19/05/2022 07:00
Non-Matrimonial Property – Valuing the Family Business
“Marriage, it is often said, is a partnership of equals. … The parties commit themselves to sharing their lives. They live and work together. When their partnership ends each is entitled to an equal share of the assets of the partnership, unles…
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- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
!01/04/2022 06:54
