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- Financial Remedies Conference 2025Tickets are now available for the Financial Remedies Conference 2025 (previously the At A Glance Conference). The Financial Remedies Conference 2025 returns on Thursday 16th October 2025 at the Pullman St Pancras, with the exciting new addition of an awards ceremony. Tickets to this year's conference also include refreshments throughout the day, digital notes and attendance at our inaugural Financial Remedies Awards 2025 drinks reception to finish off the day.
- Financial Remedies Conference 2025
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If asked, Mr Standish may say that three rounds of litigation, with another to follow, were worth it – Mrs Standish, perhaps not. But for lawyers, with many questions left unanswered, and a feeling that the opportunity to settle the law on matrimonialisation with clarity and certainty has passed us by, it may not have been worthwhile.
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In all the debate about ‘transparency’ of family proceedings, sight is almost invariably lost of the signal feature of a court case: it is among the more significant interactions in our polity between a citizen and an organ of the state. Secret dealings between state courts and private citizens are, as Lord Shaw said in Scott v Scott, an attack upon the very foundations of public and private security.
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Multiplied Propagation
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- Blog
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Sir Nicholas Mostyn makes two observations about Baroness Hale’s comments on transparency.
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