The Express Financial Remedy Pilot – a Fast Track to Success or Turmoil?

A fast-track pilot scheme for financial remedy cases is running from 7 April 2025 to 3 April 2026 in courts in the north of England. It applies by default to all cases started there where net assets (excluding pensions) are less than £250,000. It is possible to request to be removed from the express pilot and it will be interesting to follow the numbers of cases where that is granted.

• Blog

• Express Financial Remedy Procedure

• Caroline Bowden

!25/04/2025 14:00

The Changing Limits of the Without Prejudice Doctrine (in the Light of the Shift in FPR Part 3)

In this article James Pirrie and Victoria Nottage explore the intersection between the without prejudice doctrine as it applies to mediation and the inquisitorial responsibilities of the court as bolstered by the new protocols.

• Blog

• Without Prejudice

• James Pirrie
• Victoria Nottage

!04/04/2025 07:00

Voidable Marriages

Can a declaration of non-recognition of a voidable overseas marriage, where at least one of the parties is domiciled in England and Wales, lawfully be made?

• Blog

• Void Marriage

• Sir Nicholas Mostyn

!20/09/2023 12:18

Kathryn Elizabeth Norman v Michael Ian Norman [2025] EWFC 107 (B)17 April 2025

District Judge Veal. Alleged material non-disclosure, W’s totally without merit application issued in October 2024 after seven rounds of litigation including W’s D50K application, settled by agreement, made when she knew about H’s alleged non-disclosure. W ordered to pay costs on indemnity basis. Warning given regarding the use of websites leading to jigsaw identification and thereby breaching FPR 9.46(3).

• Cases

• Disclosure
• Costs
• Consent Orders
• Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)

• Elizabeth Bowden

Transplanting Costs Order Principles to LSPOs and Legal Costs Funding Orders

In family proceedings, the court has two key tools at its disposal to address the funding of litigation. The first is via an LSPO to meet the incurrence of future legal fees, and the second, quite distinct in nature and purpose, is a costs order, providing for one party to pay the costs that have already been incurred by the other party.

• Blog

• Costs
• Legal Services Payment Orders

• Grace-Mary Sweeney

!07/04/2025 10:00