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Introduction
This article reviews how solicitors currently fulfil the filing requirements of the 2022 Statement on the Efficient Conduct of Financial Remedy Hearings in the Financial Remedies Court below High Court Judge Level (the Efficiency Statement). It documents the specific challenges of producing indicative borrowing capacity material, going on to
Simon v Simon [2025] EWFC 89
Judgment date: 07 April 2025
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