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Crypto – Update

Crypto – Update

The Law Commission’s work on digital assets continues. In my blog post from 14 November 2022 I referenced the closing of the consultation period on the Law Commission’s paper ‘Digital Assets’, led by Professor Sarah Green. The paper itself is a prodigious piece of work and made some

(1) Dixon (2) Dixon v The Crown Estate Commissioners [2022] EWHC 3256

Judgment date: 22 December 2022 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2022/3256.html Judge Hodge KC. The claimants sought vesting orders in respect of two properties, following the striking off and dissolution of the company (in which the claimants had previously been shareholders) which was the registered

W v H (Contested Divorce) [2022] EWFC 150

Judgment date: 02 November 2022 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2022/150.html HHJ Greensmith. H defended W’s petition for divorce. The parties were 45. H was a doctor and W a social worker. They married in Australia in 2014 and separated in 2017. They have

Family Justice: Ostiis Apertis? Or a mantle of inviolable secrecy? A challenge to those who would keep the doors closed

Family Justice: Ostiis Apertis? Or a mantle of inviolable secrecy? A challenge to those who would keep the doors closed

Family Justice: Ostiis Apertis?[[1]] Or a mantle of inviolable secrecy?[[2]] A challenge to those who would keep the doors closed Sir James Munby 12 January 2023 On 28 October 2021 the President published the outcome of his Transparency Review: Confidence and Confidentiality: Transparency in the Family Courts. What

TM v KM [2022] EWFC 155

Judgment date: 02 December 2022 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2022/155 HHJ Hess. Application of compensation principle. W was 50 and had attended what many consider to be the finest business school in the world before a highly successful career in investment finance. In 2006 and 2007,

Myerson No. 1 and FPR 9.17(2): What Can the FDR Judge Actually Do?

Myerson No. 1 and FPR 9.17(2): What Can the FDR Judge Actually Do?

There has long been disagreement over what an FDR judge can – and cannot – do where agreement has not been reached between the parties and, in particular, whether he or she can (and if so should) make directions for a final hearing. By virtue of FPR 9.17(2) the judge

Announcement: Financial Remedies Practice 2023/24

Announcement: Financial Remedies Practice 2023/24

The authors are presently writing the 2023/24 edition, which is expected to be published by Class Publishing in April 2023. They have decided that the section of the Commentary on Part 27 concerning the applicability of the open justice principle to financial remedy proceedings (presently at §§27.89–27.