Legal Research, AI and the Canary in the Mineshaft

One of the sobering experiences of training to be a lawyer – the dawning realisation that it isn’t all dramatic cross-examination and fighting for the underdog – is legal research. Like learning a new language (let’s say, German), it’s a long and often tedious process. Some trainees, admittedly, seem to enjoy the tedium more than others. I was firmly in the ‘not enjoying this tedium’ camp.

• Blog

• AI

• Alexander Chandler KC

!09/05/2025 09:04

DSD v MJW (Costs of MPS) [2025] EWFC 119 (B)24 April 2025

DDJ David Hodson. Proportionality and maintenance pending suit (MPS), a cautionary tale. In this case the DDJ concluded that the game was very much not worth the candle, and the application turned out to be very costly for the applicant wife.

• Cases

• Interim Relief
• Maintenance Pending Suit

• Elizabeth Bowden

Standish v Standish [2024] EWCA Civ 56723 May 2024

Landmark decision where Court of Appeal reduces W’s award by £20 million. Lord Justice Moylan, Lady Justice King and Lord Justice Phillips.

• Cases

• Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
• Sharing
• Gifts
• Matrimonialisation
• Tax
• Autonomy
• Trusts

• Sophia Paraskeva

The PAG2 Guide – What Has Changed?

The publication of the Pension Advisory Group (PAG2) guidance in December 2023 marked the end of another lengthy and significant piece of interdisciplinary work by experienced practitioners in the field of pensions on divorce. The aim of this piece is to focus just on the material changes in what is now referred to as the PAG2 guide.

• Blog

• Pensions on Divorce

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

!22/01/2024 11:43

VTY v GDB [2025] EWFC 110 (B)24 April 2025

Recorder Taylor. Final hearing in a financial remedy application which concerned issues of non-disclosure and allegations of asset concealment in different countries. The matter also involved foreign litigation which appeared to undermine the existing proceedings in this jurisdiction. The parties married in 1999 and have two adult children and one aged 16. The family structure was a traditional one with H being the breadwinner and W the homemaker.

• Cases

• Foreign Assets
• Non-Disclosure
• Chattels
• Adverse Inferences
• School Fees
• Fraud
• Costs
• Duxbury Capitalisation
• Debts
• Foreign Judgments

• Stephanie Coker