By way of an extract from Polly Morgan's Family Law (OUP, 2nd edn, 2024), we present an aide memoire of the relevant principles and practicalities for the new financial remedies practitioner.
!13/03/2024 07:00
Rhys Taylor: Sir Jonathan, thank you very much for agreeing to be interviewed this evening for the Financial Remedies Journal.Can I please start by asking you, do you have any particular recollections from your early days at the Bar?Sir Jonathan Cohen: We…
!01/04/2022 05:47
In L v O (Stay of Order; Hadkinson Order; Security for Costs) [2024] EWFC 6 (26 January 2024) Cobb J considered whether a judge hearing a Barder (or Thwaite) application can/should be made aware of what took place at the FDR appointment where the original order was agreed and where this may be relevant to 'foreseeability'.
!19/02/2024 16:04
Legal and academic commentary since Potanina has focused on how the decision is likely to give rise to many more applications to set aside leave. What then, of the costs consequences for the unsuccessful applicant who now finds themselves either (i) being listed on notice on an inter-partes basis so the court can determine the question of leave having had the benefit of hearing from both parties, or (ii) having obtained leave ex parte, finds themselves having to defend the court’s decision to grant permission without hearing from the respondent when that respondent inevitably applies to set aside the grant of leave?
!22/03/2024 16:13
The Information Commissioner’s Office defines Artificial Intelligence (AI) as ‘an umbrella term for a range of algorithm-based technologies that solve complex tasks by carrying out functions that previously required human thinking’. There can be no doubt that the use of AI within the legal market is growing rapidly.
!21/03/2024 05:54
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