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Chair’s Column (Winter 2023) Once again, I am very pleased to commend to you another issue of the Financial Remedies Journal packed with compelling and engaging material. Peel J looks back on his first year in charge of the Financial Remedies Court (FRC), finding it for the most part in good health, and looks
The Financial Remedies Court: A Year in Review On 28 July of this year, Mr Justice Mostyn sat for the very last time. Many words have already been said or written about him. I particularly enjoyed the appreciation of him by Sir James Munby, which was published in the summer edition of the Financial Remedies Journal.[[1]] Few
‘An ascent so steep as to make a meteor blush’ – The valedictory for the Honourable Mr Justice Mostyn, 3 October 2023 On Monday, 2 October 2023 history was made in Court 4 of the Royal Courts of Justice, with the swearing in of the first ever Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales. Just a day later, in the very same, similarly packed-out court room, Lady Carr crossed the rope to
Financial Remedies: The Law Commission’s Scoping Project On 4 April 2023, the Law Commission announced that it would be undertaking a project to review the current law governing financial remedies on divorce or dissolution of civil partnership.[[1]] The purpose of the project is to determine whether there are problems with the current law that require reform,
Hasan – The Barder Conundrum – A Final Word (We Promise) The Supreme Court’s judgment in Hasan was handed down on 28 June 2023. Most readers will by now be at least peripherally aware of what the case was about. This article is to some extent a continuation of a blog post written by one of the authors for this
Are We Clear? Transparency and the TIG Financial Remedies Sub-Group Report Many meetings, much discussion and a fish ’n’ chips (working) lunch later, the conclusions of the Financial Remedies Sub-Group (the Sub-Group) of the Transparency Implementation Group (TIG) were published in April 2023. Established by the President of Family Division and led by HHJ Stuart Farquhar, a group of 13 – judges,