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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• Obituaries

• Alexander Chandler KC

!24/01/2025 10:42

Post-Separation Income: Has Rossi Survived Waggott and Standish?

In Rossi v Rossi [2007] 1 FLR 790 Nicholas Mostyn QC adopted a formulaic approach in relation to ‘a post-separation bonus or other earned income’. He stated that ‘[a]lthough there is an element of arbitrariness’ he would not allow a post-separation bonus to be classed as non-matrimonial ‘unless it related to a period which commenced at least 12 months after the separation’.

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• Post-Separation Accrual

• Nicholas Allen KC

!05/02/2025 11:51

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
• Needs

• Jessica Reid

!29/01/2025 09:27

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.

• Cases

• Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)

• Albert Gibbon

SM v BA (Legal Services Payment Order) [2025] EWFC 710 January 2025

Nicholas Allen KC sitting as a deputy High Court judge. Application for a legal services payment order within high net worth financial remedy proceedings.

• Cases

• Financial Remedies Court (FRC)
• Maintenance Pending Suit
• Legal Services Payment Orders

• Katie Stephens