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
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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
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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.
- Journal
- Family Procedure Rules
!26/01/2024 08:00
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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.
- Blog
- Pensions on Divorce
!22/01/2024 11:43
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
- Journal
- Pensions on Divorce
!21/11/2023 07:00
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Interview with Professor David Hodson
Professor David Hodson, interviewed by Rhys Taylor, the Vice Chair of the Editorial Board.
- Journal
- Interview
!21/11/2023 07:00
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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