Published: 16/10/2023 11:22
Professor Nicholas Hopkins is Law Commissioner for Family Law at the Law Commission of England and Wales. Amongst other projects, he has previously led the Commission’s work on surrogacy law (jointly with the Scottish Law Commission) and Weddings law. He holds a Chair in Law at Reading University and is an Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple.
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DDJ Rose. Final hearing in modest asset case. Court making findings on the validity of H’s purported loans/gifts to the parties’ children. Consideration of the Kimber factors concerning point of cohabitation.
Landmark decision where Court of Appeal reduces W’s award by £20 million. Lord Justice Moylan, Lady Justice King and Lord Justice Phillips.
The duty of disclosure and its proactive nature runs through financial remedy proceedings like letters through a stick of seaside rock. It appears on the face of the Form E. It has been set out in numerous cases.
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As 2024 comes to an end the “Year in Review” brings all the FRJ blogs from the year together in one place for a ‘real time’ review of what was important, when, and why over the last 12 months.
!17/12/2024 09:30
It was settled in Wyatt v Vince [2015] UKSC 14 that the court cannot strike-out/give summary judgment on a legally recognisable application for a financial remedy order as an applicant is entitled to have such an application heard on its merits. But is that the end of the matter? In Ma v Roux [2024] EWHC 1917 (Fam) Francis J heard an appeal from HHJ Reardon.
!25/09/2024 17:32
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