Efficient Conduct
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Simon v Simon [2025] EWFC 897 April 2025
Peel J. Cost judgment from Peel J in ‘highly unusual’ financial remedy proceedings, in which a litigation loan provider successfully applied to be joined and to set aside a consent order which prevented them recovering a loan to W.
- Cases
- Conduct
- Costs
- Joinder of Third Parties
- Efficient Conduct
- Consent Orders
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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T v T and Others (Disregard for Procedural Rules, Adjournment) [2025] EWFC 14 (B)29 January 2025
Recorder Chandler KC was forced to adjourn a three-day hearing in the face of W’s legal aid solicitors failing to comply with the Family Court’s procedures. The judge made it clear that where a legally represented applicant failed to comply with the Family Procedure Rules, practice directions and the Statement of Efficient Conduct relevant to preparing a case for a hearing, it was likely there would be costs consequences.
- Cases
- Costs
- Bundles
- Efficient Conduct
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GH v GH [2024] EWHC 2547 (Fam)
Peel J. In a narrow but important judgment, Peel J reminds all of the importance of an FDR, allowing an appeal against a decision of the first instance judge to proceed directly to a final hearing.
- Cases
- FDRs
- Financial Remedies Court (FRC)
- Appeals
- Efficient Conduct
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RG v TA (Appeal: Legal Services Funding Order: Schedule 1 Children Act 1989) [2023] EWHC 3155 (Fam)6 October 2023
Roberts J. Appeal from HHJ Ellis who had refused F’s application for a legal services payment order of £125,000 in relation to his s 8 and Schedule 1 applications.
- Cases
- Legal Services Payment Orders
- Efficient Conduct
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O v O [2023] EWFC 1611 October 2023
Recorder Laura Moys. Non-matrimonial assets, wanton dissipation, maintenance, plus interesting point re school fees trust.
- Cases
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Conduct
- Efficient Conduct
- Add-Backs
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GA v EL [2023] EWFC 18731 October 2023
Peel J. Daniels v Walker application made by the Wife ('W') at a Pre-Trial Review in financial remedy proceedings.
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- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Post-Separation Accrual
- Daniels v Walker Application
- Experts
- Business Assets
- Efficient Conduct
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…
- Journal
- FDRs
- Unconscious Bias
- arbitration
- divorce
- Financial Remedies Court (FRC)
- Diversity
- DR Corner
- Financial Remedies
- Private FDR
- Efficient Conduct
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- First Appointments
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Form C, The Efficiency Statement and What Judges Expect to See
The Form C, also called the allocation order, is the order that the court makes at the same time as issuing the Form A. Well, that is interesting, you may be thinking. Bear with me, dear reader because I now mention the Financial Remedy Portal versus Fami…
- Blog
- Efficient Conduct
!16/12/2022 19:33
Time Out: Abide By the Rules – or Else! Analysis of WC v HC [2022] EWFC 22 (Peel J)
IntroductionWhen the former President announced a number of years ago the ambition of creating a Financial Remedies Court, it was clearly stated that the intention was to produce a modern and efficient justice system. At the same time, there was a warning…
- Blog
- Efficient Conduct
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WC v HC (Financial Remedies Agreement) (Rev1) [2022] EWFC 2222 March 2022
Peel J.W’s financial remedy application resulted in a needs-based award of £7.45m net (c.60%). H was from a very wealthy family, and the parties’ lifestyle had been funded by H’s father via annual gifts which had ceased since the divorce proceedings. A po…
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- Agreements
- Efficient Conduct
- Prospective Inheritance
- Needs
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