Avoiding the Bear Traps of Arbitration – Some Tips from the Coalface

Arbitration is the form of ADR on everyone’s lips – even more so now with the new NCDR provisions that have come into force. Slow to get going, after its launch in 2012, and after Haley v Haley ironed out people’s concerns about routes to appeal, arbitration is sometimes hailed as being the silver bullet solution – a client-pleasing way to avoid the challenges that come with the court service.

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• Jo Carr-West
• Eri Horrocks

!02/12/2024 11:04

The Art of the Award: Delivering an Arbitral Award in a Financial Remedies Case

Like advocacy, award writing is a solitary and idiosyncratic art. No doubt others use different brush strokes. These are Rhys Taylor's tips for award writing.

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

!05/09/2024 11:00

DR Corner: Introducing Assent: Combining Arbitration and Private FDRs in a Streamlined Process based on the FPR Directions

Anyone who has tried to arrange a Private Financial Dispute Resolution (pFDR) will be familiar with that sinking feeling when the process is slipping away. It starts with a low-level dispute over the judge, the date or the location of the hearing. Then a seemingly innocuous question about disclosure…

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• Zoë Bloom

!01/07/2024 07:00

LT v ZU [2023] EWFC 1796 October 2023

HHJ Evans-Gordon. Substantive hearing following the father challenging an application by the mother to convert an arbitral award into an order of the court.

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• Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
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• Stephanie Coker

LT v ZU [2022] EWFC 20628 December 2022

HHJ Evans-Gordon. Application by the father challenging an arbitral award concerning provision for the parties’ two children pursuant to Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989.

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• Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
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• Stephanie Coker

DR Corner: The Drive for Gender Diversity in Private FDRs

Pressures on court time and the increasing use of remote courts over the COVID-19 pandemic have led to the increasing popularity and success of Private FDRs within (and instead of) financial remedy proceedings within the last 5 years.A Private FDR is a &l…

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• Diversity
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• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• First Appointments

• Sarah Green

!27/03/2023 09:50

A Review – Family Financial Arbitration: A Short Guide

Emily Ward reviews Family Financial Arbitration: A Short Guide by Gavin Smith.

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• arbitration
• Book Review

• Emily Ward

!17/10/2022 14:29

Out of the Shadows, into the Light. De-mystifying Private FDRs and Arbitration.

Barristers learn to do the job as a pupil by sitting with the pupil supervisor and watching how the job is done. Solicitors do much the same with a supervising solicitor. On first appointment to a judicial appointment, deputy judges or Recorders usually s…

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• Andrzej Bojarski KC

!23/05/2022 09:07