A v B [2025] EWFC 12714 April 2025

Trowell J. Application for a lump sum for litigation costs under Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989 in relation to proceedings under s 8 of the Children Act 1989.

• Cases

• Costs
• Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications

• Katie Stephens

A Local Authority v X (Attendance of Experts) [2025] EWFC 1373 June 2025

MacDonald J gave guidance on the question of when and how the court is to exercise its case management power to enable an expert to attend a hearing to give oral evidence under FPR 25.9(2). The question is whether it is ‘necessary in the interests of justice’ for the expert to do so – there is no gloss of exceptionality, and each case must be determined on its own facts.

• Cases

• Experts

• Jasmine Knapman

GR v AR [2025] EWFC 143 (B)10 March 2025

HHJ Hess (sitting as a deputy High Court judge). Application of the sharing principle and dispute over matrimonial vs non matrimonial property in HNW financial remedy case.

• Cases

• Sharing Principle
• Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
• Shares
• High Net Worth
• Family Home

• Abigail Clements-Bewley

James v Seymour: The Calculator

As helpfully summarised by Calum Smith on the FRJ website Mostyn J’s judgment in James v Seymour [2023] EWHC 844 (Fam) 675 included a renewed attempt to tackle how Child Maintenance should be calculated, effectively refining the methodology first se…

• Blog

• Child Maintenance

• Dom Christophers

!29/05/2023 08:00

Remediable Service Statements – What to Expect for ‘Immediate Choice’ Members

All of the public sector pension schemes are now further along the process of allowing for the McCloud judgment (public sector pensions remedy) for affected members (typically those with some pensionable service in the remedy period from 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2022). Some of the public sector pension schemes have now commenced issuing Remediable Service Statements to affected members.

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• Pensions

• Denise Andryszewska

!12/06/2025 09:00