What Financial Remedy Lawyers Need to Know About Emojis ❓👨👩🤔🧐🌝

Emojis play a significant part in digital communications, including casual messaging, social media posts, and increasingly, professional communications. When we are reviewing historical messages, understanding what the emojis were intended to mean could become an essential part of identifying what was discussed and/or agreed at that time.

• Blog

• Interpretation

• Graeme Fraser

!15/11/2024 08:00

A v M (No 3) [2024] EWFC 29925 October 2024

Cohen J. Application by H to strike out W’s application to set aside a final order in financial remedies proceedings on the ground of H’s misrepresentation.

• Cases

• Disclosure
• Conduct
• Striking Out Applications
• Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)

• Olivia Currie

The End of the Non-Dom Tax Status: Time Now to End Family Law Domicile Jurisdiction

Domicile has been a fundamental basis of jurisdiction in English law including English family law. But it is intrinsically backward-looking, archaic in its concepts, thoroughly unknown or at best misunderstood by the population, differently defined abroad and at odds with many other countries including the EU. With the non-domicile tax status being abolished as announced in the budget in late October 2024, is it not time now to end domicile as a family law basis of jurisdiction? Nationality is a far more straightforward, certain and modern basis.

• Blog

• Jurisdiction
• Domicile

• Professor David Hodson OBE KC(Hons) MCIArb

!11/11/2024 11:48

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

The Autumn 2024 Budget: A Summary of the Key Reforms for Financial Remedy Practitioners

In the Autumn Budget 2024 Rachel Reeves, our first female Chancellor of the Exchequer, set out arguably the biggest tax changes for a generation, set to raise taxes by £41bn by 2029/30 and said to be part of the Government’s plan to revitalise Britain. This article summarises the key reforms of the Budget, highlighting those which may be of particular relevance to financial remedy practitioners and their clients.

• Blog

• Jennifer Lee
• Roger Isaacs

!01/11/2024 14:58