Published: 07/05/2025 08:26
Rebecca Carew Pole KC is a leading silk in the field of matrimonial finance at 1 Hare Court. She acts in complex financial disputes, mostly for high-net-worth clients and notable individuals. She has appeared in a number of seminal cases in recent years, including BI v EN and XW.
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Looking back over the last 12 months, 29 April 2024 was an important day for financial remedy practitioners. This was the date the rules concerning NCDR changed. The changes make ignoring the NCDR options a costs hazard. It seemed inevitable that costs orders would follow.
!20/05/2025 12:05
It’s often the financial remedy cases involving non-family barristers or judges which are the most interesting. There’s something about an outsider’s perspective which can illuminate legal principle and remind us that, per Mostyn J, ‘the Family Courts are not a desert island’.
!21/05/2025 14:00
DDJ David Hodson. Proportionality and maintenance pending suit (MPS), a cautionary tale. In this case the DDJ concluded that the game was very much not worth the candle, and the application turned out to be very costly for the applicant wife.
In this article Sir Nicholas Mostyn refers to those financial remedy cases heard in private to which s 12 Administration of Justice Act 1960 does not apply as mainstream financial remedy cases. As is well-known, s 12 imposes an automatic restriction on publishing the details of any financial remedy case which is mainly about child maintenance. The great majority of financial remedy cases are not protected by s 12.
!21/05/2025 10:00
This article reviews how solicitors currently fulfil the filing requirements of the 2022 Statement on the Efficient Conduct of Financial Remedy Hearings in the Financial Remedies Court below High Court Judge Level (the Efficiency Statement).
!21/05/2025 10:00
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