ADR and costs penalties in financial remedies cases

Historically inter partes costs orders in financial remedies proceedings have been as common as hens’ teeth, for the very simple reason that the current costs rules largely preclude them being made. Thus FPR 28.3 provides so far as is material:&lsqu…

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• Costs
• Alternative Dispute Resolution

• Andrew Hogan

!29/03/2023 14:58

Tech Corner: Choosing Tech that Will Transform the Way You Work

Non-essential office tech that can transform your work. How to sort the tech needs from the tech thneeds.The Lorax, you’ll know exactly what I mean, if not: ‘A thing that is not required yet is purchased in great amounts anyways’ (www.ur…

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• Productivity
• Efficiency
• Making Sense of Documents
• Tech Corner
• Workflow

• Jim Hitch

!27/03/2023 09:51

Looking Back at Duxbury 30 Years On

The Duxbury formula seeks to ascertain a capital amount which if invested to achieve capital growth and income yield (both at assumed rates and after tax on the yield and required gains) could be drawn down in equal inflation-proofed instalments over a period of time (often the recipient’s life expectancy) but would be completely exhausted at the end of the period.

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• Michael Allum
• Megan Jenkins
• Amy Gilbert

!27/03/2023 09:12

Book Review: Quiet Revolutionaries

Dr Andy Hayward reviews Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women’s Association and Family Law, by Sharon Thompson (Hart Publishing, 2022).

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• Book Review

• Dr Andy Hayward

!27/03/2023 09:54

The Interplay Between Welfare Benefits and Financial Remedy Orders – A Practitioner’s View

It is now 10 years since the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) came into force. Reflecting back, the obvious impact on my firm’s practice has been the reduction in the number of financial remedy cases we deal with wh…

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• Low Income Cases
• Universal Credit
• State Benefits

• Lucy Mead

!27/03/2023 09:41