Conduct and Its Consequences: Goddard-Watts and TK v LK

In ‘Is It Time to Consign the “Gasp” Factor to the History Books?’, Olivia Piercy and Anita Mehta considered whether three decisions might herald a significant change in the courts’ approach to domestic abuse, including economic abuse and coercive and controlling behaviour, as ‘conduct’ that it would be ‘inequitable to disregard’. If there is a nascent consensus that it is time for a change in approach, that view may not be universally held.

• Blog

• Conduct

• Andrew Day

!15/04/2024 21:08

Multiplied Propagation

Between 30 September 2023 and 1 April 2024, 24 financial remedy judgments which were not mainly about the maintenance of children (and therefore not protected by s 12 of the Administration of Justice Act 1960) were placed on Bailii. None of these was governed by the Financial Remedy Pilot, but only one was published without anonymisation.

• Blog

• Transparency

• Sir Nicholas Mostyn

!08/04/2024 10:51

The Compensation Principle and Remuneration for Career ‘Sacrifice’ – TM v KM [2022] EWFC 155

The compensation principle made a surprising reappearance in the case of TM v KM [2022] EWFC 155, where HHJ Hess made an order for the wife to receive £500,000 by way of compensation for the 'relationship-generated sacrifice' that she made in giving up her lucrative career in investment banking.

• Blog

• Compensation Principle

• Sophia Gonella

!10/02/2023 23:20

Interview with Sir Jonathan Cohen

Rhys Taylor: Sir Jonathan, thank you very much for agreeing to be interviewed this evening for the Financial Remedies Journal.Can I please start by asking you, do you have any particular recollections from your early days at the Bar?Sir Jonathan Cohen: We…

• Journal

• Rhys Taylor | Vice Chair of the Editorial Board & Journal Editor

!01/04/2022 05:47

TK v LK [2024] EWFC 712 April 2024

Enormously helpful review of Sch 1 authorities re (i) the jurisdiction to make a Schedule 1 award after a clean break in divorce proceedings, (ii) the relevance of parental conduct in Schedule 1 proceedings, (iii) dependence and the reversion of capital and (iv) costs.

• Cases

• Conduct
• Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
• Costs
• Child Maintenance
• Case Management

• Elizabeth Bowden