Hadkinson Orders: the Need to Show Restraint

This article addresses ‘Hadkinson’ orders, in light of several recent cases handed down over a short period of time, highlighting the potential limitations as to their availability.

• Blog

• Hadkinson Orders

• Rebecca Cross
• Nicholas Starks

!17/04/2024 10:22

Dodgy Digital Documents: Where Are We Now? Where Are We Going?

In the sun-kissed, halcyon days of late 2019 when Brexit had not yet taken effect and a corona was a halo of gas seen around the sun during an eclipse, a fevered discussion was taking place on Twitter between family lawyers regarding the increasing freque…

• Journal

• Digital
• Disclosure
• Fraud
• Manipulation
• Evidence
• Fake
• Documents

• Helen Brander

!06/07/2022 07:13

The Galbraith Tables: a New Chapter for Pension Offsetting on Divorce?

Purpose of this articleThis article discusses how the thinking on the remedy of offsetting of pension rights has emerged over time, and introduces the ‘Galbraith Tables’, being the authors’ attempt to produce transparent and accessible p…

• Journal

• Pensions on Divorce

• Rhys Taylor | Vice Chair of the Editorial Board & Journal Editor
• Chris Goodwin
• Jonathan Galbraith

!01/04/2022 06:26

KFK v DQD [2024] EWFC 78 (B)3 April 2024

Recorder Rhys Taylor. Modest asset needs case. Issues in the case: add-back, adverse inference, beneficial interests, dishonesty, family loans and resources, nature of business assets (income vs capital resource), non-disclosure, presumption of advancement, treatment of debts, and witness credibility.

• Cases

• Family Procedure Rules
• Chattels
• Costs
• Disclosure

• Elizabeth Bowden

Single and Joint: Peel J Discusses Expert Evidence in BR v BR [2024] EWFC 11

In BR v BR [2024] EWFC 11, Peel J took the opportunity, in his role as head of the FRC, to ‘do a written judgment as one or two points of principle arise’. Specifically: the use of single joint experts in financial remedy proceedings. This is an important decision informing family lawyers how cases should be conducted.

• Blog

• SJE
• Single Joint Experts

• Amelia Alston
• Alex Laing

!03/04/2024 10:25