Rhys Taylor | Vice Chair of the Editorial Board & Journal Editor
Published: 13/01/2022 10:51
Rhys Taylor is a barrister at The 36 Group and 30 Park Place. He is a member of the Family Procedure Rule Committee, the Pension Advisory Group and the FLBA national committee. Rhys is a Recorder, arbitrator, mediator and a neutral/evaluator in the private FDR setting. He tweets @RhysTaylor32
Tectonic Developments for Non-Court Dispute Resolution in the Family Court? The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023/1324
On 29 November 2023, the Court of Appeal decided Churchill v Merthyr Tydfil CBC [2023] EWCA Civ 1416. It held that a whole generation of lawyers and judges had misunderstood Halsey v Milton Keynes General NHS Trust [2004] EWCA Civ 576, which had previously been understood to be binding authority for the proposition that the court cannot compel parties to engage in mediation.
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- NCDR
- Out of Court Dispute Resolution Options
!07/12/2023 18:27
The Jurisdiction of the Family Court to Determine Property Disputes in Favour of Third Parties
The Family Court does not have TLATA jurisdiction. This creates a particular problem for proceedings in a Family Court which is not also a county court, most obviously the CFC in London. This article, although not limited to proceedings in the CFC, includes some specific discussion about how the problem can be dealt with there.
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- TOLATA
!21/11/2023 07:00
The Pensions Ombudsman for Family Lawyers
The Pensions Ombudsman may investigate and determine any complaint made to them in writing by or on behalf of an authorised complainant who alleges that they have sustained injustice in consequence of maladministration in connection with any act or omission of the trustees or managers of an occupational pension scheme or personal pension scheme.
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- Pensions on Divorce
!21/11/2023 07:00
Interview with Professor David Hodson
Professor David Hodson, interviewed by Rhys Taylor, the Vice Chair of the Editorial Board.
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- Interview
!21/11/2023 07:00
Advice for the Young at Heart
Pupillages are commencing. There was recently some chatter in my chambers about what a family law pupil should have read or at least be aware of. Engaging though this conversation was, it got me thinking about what advice is not to be obviously found in t…
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- Pupillages
!05/10/2023 22:47
Pensions on Divorce – Standard Family Order Template and Short Marriages
This article deals with two points. The first relates to the publication of the new pension sharing order (PSO) template at paragraph number 95 in the Standard Family Orders suite. The second relates to the issue of short marriages in the context of pensi…
- Journal
- Standard Family Orders
- Duration of the Marriage
- Pensions on Divorce
!03/07/2023 08:00
Pensions on Divorce – Standard Family Order Template
This article relates to the publication of the new pension sharing order (PSO) template at paragraph number 95 in the Standard Family Orders suite.
- Blog
- Pensions on Divorce
!17/05/2023 16:22
The Class Legal Financial Remedies Skyline: a Review
Consider changes to the London skyline over a generation. Now consider Mostyn J’s contribution to the law reports over a similar time.
- Blog
!31/05/2022 13:57
The Galbraith Tables: a New Chapter for Pension Offsetting on Divorce?
Purpose of this articleThis article discusses how the thinking on the remedy of offsetting of pension rights has emerged over time, and introduces the ‘Galbraith Tables’, being the authors’ attempt to produce transparent and accessible p…
- Journal
- Pensions on Divorce
!01/04/2022 06:26
Tech Corner: The Remarkable 2, for Family Lawyers?
We date ourselves with our I.T. My generation grew up on the ZX Spectrum, 48K. The noise of Jet Set Willy loading on a cassette tape is an iconic sound of my childhood. I graduated without ever having owned a PC. Hershman & McFarlane was famously birthed on a pair of Amstrad word processors. Mostyn, then a junior barrister, imagined the Form E into existence with an IBM PS/2 (720KB).
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- Tech Corner
!01/04/2022 05:54
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