Balancing the Books: Equitable Accounting in Trusts of Land Disputes

This article aims to provide the busy family practitioner with a fairly comprehensive guide to the what, where, when, and how of equitable accounting, specifically in the context of trusts of land, to assist you in getting such claims off on the right footing.

• Journal

• TLATA Applications
• Cohabitation
• Equitable Accounting

• Charlotte John
• Cameron Stocks

!22/11/2024 06:00

The Winds of Change – Case Management and the Financial Remedies Court

Once upon a time, not so long ago, ‘ancillary relief’ was something of a legal backwater. Cases were determined solely by reference to ‘reasonable requirements’. Procedural rules, to the extent they existed, were short and loosely applied. Parties filed narrative affidavits of means and answered requests for further and better particulars.

• Journal

• Procedure
• Financial Remedies

• Alexander Chandler KC

!22/11/2024 06:00

Demeanour and Denial (or Don’t Mention the Data)

In his groundbreaking 1925 work, Die Verneinung, psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud postulated the existence of the psychological defence mechanism ‘denial’, whereby facts too painful to process or accept are rejected. Examples of its applications abound.

• Journal

• Fact-Finding
• Witness Evidence
• Demeanour
• Evidence Given Remotely

• Brent Molyneux
• Nicholas Bennett
• Madeleine Whelan

!22/11/2024 06:00

A Practical Guide on How to Select your Expert, Reviewing the Expert's Report and When to Consider Engaging a Shadow Expert

Fiona Hotston Moore is an accredited expert witness, instructed on 40–50 matrimonial cases each year. A significant number of these instructions are as single joint expert or party expert providing an opinion on the valuation of a business or shareholding. This article shares her practical guidance as a valuation expert for family lawyers and barristers.

• Journal

• Experts
• Business Valuation

• Fiona Hotston Moore

!22/11/2024 06:00

Standish v Standish [2024] EWCA Civ 56723 May 2024

Landmark decision where Court of Appeal reduces W’s award by £20 million. Lord Justice Moylan, Lady Justice King and Lord Justice Phillips.

• Cases

• Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
• Sharing
• Gifts
• Matrimonialisation
• Tax
• Autonomy
• Trusts

• Sophia Paraskeva