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 and the Pension Advisory Group. Bencher of the Inner Temple. Contributing Editor to The Family Court Practice and co-author of Pensions on Divorce: A Practitioner’s Guide. Regular lecturer including to the Judicial College. Rhys is a Recorder, arbitrator, mediator and a neutral/evaluator in the private FDR setting. He tweets @RhysTaylor32
Tech Corner: Ethical AI for Family Lawyers
A conversation between Kay Firth-Butterfield and Rhys Taylor.
- Journal
- Tech Corner
- Professional Ethics
- AI
!01/07/2024 07:00
Revised Finance Pre-Action Protocol
On 29 April 2024 important changes were made to FPR Part 3 and Part 28 to promote non-court dispute resolution (NCDR). To support these changes the pre-action protocol (PAP) annexed to FPR PD 9A has also been updated.
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- NCDR
!30/05/2024 09:31
D(R) Day: Today’s Changes to FPR Parts 3 and 28
FPR Part 3 has historically been underused. This may change as important revisions to both FPR Part 3 and Part 28 come into effect, on 29 April 2024, when the material parts of the Family Procedure (Amendment No 2) Rules 2023 (SI 2023/1324) come into force.
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- NCDR
- Family Procedure Rules
!29/04/2024 07:00
Interview with Hilary Woodward
Rhys Taylor interviews Hilary Woodward, a former solicitor and mediator, academic and the about to retire CEO of the Pension Advisory Group.
- Journal
- Pensions on Divorce
- Interview
!13/03/2024 07:00
Financial Dispute Revolution? The Family Procedure (Amendment No 2) Rules 2023
There was a time when an unwritten rule seemed to provide that a marriage could only be described as long once the parties had celebrated their china anniversary and entered a third decade together, but times change, and so eventually do some rules.
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- Family Procedure Rules
!26/01/2024 08:00
The PAG2 Guide – What Has Changed?
The publication of the Pension Advisory Group (PAG2) guidance in December 2023 marked the end of another lengthy and significant piece of interdisciplinary work by experienced practitioners in the field of pensions on divorce. The aim of this piece is to focus just on the material changes in what is now referred to as the PAG2 guide.
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- Pensions on Divorce
!22/01/2024 11:43
The Unopposable Application for a Penal Notice
There are relatively few applications for a court order in financial remedy proceedings that cannot be opposed and which are bound to succeed. One is an application for a penal notice.
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- Penal Notices
!18/01/2024 17:00
Some Reflections on the Launch of the Second Edition of the Pension Advisory Group Guide to Pensions on Divorce
The Pension Advisory Group have just published a second edition of their Guide to the Treatment of Pensions on Divorce – ‘PAG2’.
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- Pensions on Divorce
!20/12/2023 10:48
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