James Turner KC (1952–2025): An Obituary

James Turner KC, who has died aged 72, was a titan of the bar. In an increasingly specialised legal world, he had a uniquely broad practice for a family barrister: financial remedies, child abduction, divorce, crime, judicial review, medical disciplinary work and administrative law.

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• Alexander Chandler KC

!24/01/2025 10:42

ST v AR [2025] EWFC 4

The Husband is 70. The Wife is 51. They have a 9-year-old daughter. They cohabited from February 2003 and in early 2012 separated due to the wife’s affair. In August 2012 – c.9 months later – they reunited. They married on 8 October 2012. The wife applied for divorce in May 2023. They therefore had nearly 20 years together, albeit not seamless cohabitation.

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• Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
• Matrimonialisation
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• Jessica Reid

!29/01/2025 09:27

Of Dogs and Divorce

Of dogs and divorce: why treating pets as chattels is an anachronism.

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• divorce

• District Judge Hatvany

!28/01/2025 10:02

WW v XX [2024] EWFC 330 (B)11 October 2024

HHJ Hess. Final hearing involving valuation and matrimonial nature of business.

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• Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
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• Companies
• Valuations

• William Foulkes

XY v XX [2024] EWFC 387 (B)8 November 2024

HHJ Hess. Application brought by H to set aside on the basis of a ‘mutual mistake’ of the parties which presented the court with inaccurate computational figures.

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• Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)

• Albert Gibbon