Olivia Piercy
Published: 18/10/2023 14:21
Olivia Piercy is a partner at Hunters Law and a member of Resolution’s Domestic Abuse Committee and co-Chair of Resolution’s working party on domestic abuse in financial remedy cases.
N v J: the Last Word on Domestic Abuse as Conduct?
On Monday last week, in In N v J [2024] EWFC 184 (15 July 2024), Mr Justice Peel handed down the most recent authority on pleading conduct pursuant to s 25(2)(g) of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973. Those interested in this area have been keen to see whether Mr Justice Peel, as the Lead Judge of the Financial Remedies Court, would move the dial either in terms of procedure, or the application of the substantive law. Like all of Mr Justice Peel’s judgments, it is erudite, comprehensive and concise. It is also timely.
- Blog
- Domestic Abuse
- Conduct
!24/07/2024 10:05
The Intersection Between LSPOs and Economic Abuse
Recent years have seen increasing awareness of economic abuse, and how the financial remedy process can be manipulated as a tool of such abuse. However, one aspect of this has had little attention: the intersection between economic abuse and LSPOs.
- Blog
- Domestic Abuse
- Legal Services Payment Orders
!08/02/2024 11:39
Is It Time to Consign the ‘Gasp’ Factor to the History Books?
In the private law arena, the Family Court has taken huge strides forward in its understanding and approach to coercive control, following the landmark case of Re H-N and Others (Children) (Domestic Abuse: Finding of Fact Hearings) [2021] EWCA Civ 448. We know now that domestic abuse and coercive control is linked with poorer financial outcomes for victim-survivors and their children, and that the harm victim-survivors experience is caused by coercion and control – not only by the severity of the injury from a specific incident.
- Blog
- Domestic Abuse
- Coercive Control
!18/10/2023 14:23
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