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AI and Family Law

AI and Family Law

Breakfast meeting, Support through Courts, 8 October 2024 AI has the real likelihood of transforming the practice of family law solicitors more than the major conceptual changes from the Children Act, the seismic shift from White or the speed of response needed from lis pendens of EU law – a transformation

MR v EF [2024] EWFC 144 (B)

Judgment date: 20 June 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/144 Recorder Rhys Taylor in financial remedy proceedings makes findings in favour of the wife as to the date of separation of the parties. The parties cohabited from 1978 and married in 1980 but could not agree

IN v CH [2024] EWFC 233

Judgment date: 08 July 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/233 Mr Stephen Trowell KC. The husband and wife made competing applications for an order for sale in respect of the matrimonial home and a yacht. The court found that the wife did not have a beneficial interest

N v J [2024] EWFC 184

Judgment date: 15 July 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/184 Peel J’s view is that it is unlikely that domestic abuse would have a material impact on the vast majority of financial remedy cases, such that it would need to be litigated. Peel J uses the

Resolution’s Report on Domestic Abuse in Financial Remedy Proceedings: An Overview of the Key Findings and Recommendations

Resolution’s Report on Domestic Abuse in Financial Remedy Proceedings: An Overview of the Key Findings and Recommendations

Introduction This blog piece has been timed to coincide with the publication, on 8 October 2024, of the report by Resolution on ‘Domestic Abuse in Financial Remedy Proceedings’. This groundbreaking report delves into the interplay between domestic abuse and the treatment of finances on separation and divorce/dissolution (hereinafter ‘divorce’