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- 16 October 2025
- 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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Sham, Adverse Inferences and the Burden of Proof: Awolowo [2025] EWCA Civ 641
It’s often the financial remedy cases involving non-family barristers or judges which are the most interesting. There’s something about an outsider’s perspective which can illuminate legal principle and remind us that, per Mostyn J, ‘the Family Courts are not a desert island’.
- Blog
- Burden Of Proof
- Adverse Inferences
- Sham
!21/05/2025 14:00
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Kathryn Elizabeth Norman v Michael Ian Norman [2025] EWFC 107 (B)17 April 2025
District Judge Veal. Alleged material non-disclosure, W’s totally without merit application issued in October 2024 after seven rounds of litigation including W’s D50K application, settled by agreement, made when she knew about H’s alleged non-disclosure. W ordered to pay costs on indemnity basis. Warning given regarding the use of websites leading to jigsaw identification and thereby breaching FPR 9.46(3).
- Cases
- Disclosure
- Costs
- Consent Orders
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
Maintenance for a Disabled Adult Child: A Case of Legal Blogging
Given the announcement of a new Financial Remedies Court reporting pilot, Polly Morgan discusses the process of legal blogging: the rules around accessing the hearing, the practicalities of reporting, the framework for controlling what can be reported, and the drafting of a reporting restriction order.
- Journal
- Transparency
- Publicity and Confidentiality
- Maintenance
!13/03/2024 07:00
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CA v UK [2025] EWFC 117 (B)10 January 2025
HHJ Watkins. A substantive application by the father for a child maintenance order under Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989 (‘Schedule 1’); [12]. Within the application, the main issue concerned the most suitable jurisdiction for child maintenance dispute resolution. There were two jurisdictions involved in the forum conveniens dispute namely England and Wales and California.
- Cases
- Forum Conveniens
- Jurisdiction
- Child Maintenance
- Variation
- Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
- Forum Disputes
- Enforcement
N v J: the Last Word on Domestic Abuse as Conduct?
On Monday last week, in In N v J [2024] EWFC 184 (15 July 2024), Mr Justice Peel handed down the most recent authority on pleading conduct pursuant to s 25(2)(g) of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973. Those interested in this area have been keen to see whether Mr Justice Peel, as the Lead Judge of the Financial Remedies Court, would move the dial either in terms of procedure, or the application of the substantive law. Like all of Mr Justice Peel’s judgments, it is erudite, comprehensive and concise. It is also timely.
- Blog
- Domestic Abuse
- Conduct
!24/07/2024 10:05
