A Priceless Inheritance: Family Law, Open Justice and the Rule of Law

Sir Nicholas Mostyn presented on this topic at the Bar Council’s law reform lecture 2025, on 2 July 2025. This monograph is the property of Sir Nicholas Mostyn.

• Blog

• Sir Nicholas Mostyn

!03/07/2025 06:00

Standish v Standish [2025] UKSC 262 July 2025

Lord Burrows and Lord Stephens (with whom Lord Reed, Lord Lloyd-Jones and Lady Simler agree). The Supreme Court unanimously dismissed W’s appeal, upheld the Court of Appeal’s decision, and clarified application of the sharing principle and matrimonialisation.

• Cases

• Sharing Principle
• Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property

• Monique Simone Fremder

Goodman v Walker [2024] EWFC 212 (B)23 July 2024

HHJ Hess. High-profile Schedule 1 Final Hearing between Lauryn Goodman and Kyle Walker in which the judge made transparency orders in accordance with the guidance set out in the Transparency Reporting Pilot for Financial Remedy Proceedings.

• Cases

• Child Maintenance
• Anonymity and Transparency
• Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications

• Ellie Rogers

‘You Want Me to Do What Now?’ – The Return-to-Work Question and the Quiet Cost of Executive Marriage

She hadn’t written a CV in 20 years. Hadn’t needed to. When her ex’s career took off, they moved every few years. She held everything else together while he earned the money. But ‘everything else’ was a lot. A job that never ended, never paid, and never came with recognition, until now, when it’s being questioned. Because now, as part of the divorce, she’s being asked to outline her ‘return-to-work plan’.

• Journal

• Economic Disparity
• Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
• 5-Year Career Plan
• Return to Work

• Ceri Griffiths

!30/06/2025 06:00

WW v XX [2024] EWFC 330 (B)11 October 2024

HHJ Hess. Final hearing involving valuation and matrimonial nature of business.

• Cases

• Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
• Experts
• Companies
• Valuations

• William Foulkes