The Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020, which comes into force on 6 April 2022, represents a significant and positive shift away from investigating reasons for marriage breakdown and towards individuals’ autonomy. Whilst very few practitioners oppose the introduction of no fault divorce,[[1]] in certain quarters of the media

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2021/87.html Sometimes in law, as in life, things do not turn out expectedly. BT v CU was intended to be a test case for whether COVID was capable of being a Barder event. H’s argument was that the pandemic

HHJ Edward Hess’s judgment in the case of Mr T and Mrs T is without doubt the most complex and detailed pension sharing judgment ever handed down by the courts in England and Wales. It has more twists and turns than a John le Carré novel and, as you

When individuals stop living in the matrimonial home they are often likely to face a capital gains tax charge when the property is sold or transferred. Any individuals that have lived in a property as their main home are entitled to Principal Private Residence (PPR) relief when the property is

Background Convicted criminals may find themselves subject to confiscation applications and orders. These might be accompanied by a trust of land or financial remedy application, by a (perhaps not so) innocent applicant. How do confiscation proceedings work generally? How do they interact with family proceedings? This article gives a general

A few introductory thoughts – the bigger picture The legal profession is notoriously slow at embracing change whether it is to the substantive law or, more often, to process. Every attempt to make the system work better and to the advantage of the punters is customarily met with a shaking of

We date ourselves with our I.T. My generation grew up on the ZX Spectrum 48K. The noise of Jet Set Willy loading on a cassette tape is an iconic sound of my childhood. I graduated without ever having owned a PC. Hershman & McFarlane was famously birthed on a

The area of financial protection is one that most of us first come across when we are buying a house. The mortgage adviser will deftly remind us of all the things that might go wrong for our family if we were to become seriously ill or die. During my training

From the Chair of the Editorial Board The Financial Remedies Case Round-Up will be a regular feature in the FRJ. The intention will largely be to draw brief attention to a full range of financial remedies case judgments delivered since the last edition of the journal, which the interested reader

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: Well, first of all, it was great