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Chair’s Column (Summer 2024)
The FRJ website
I am delighted to see from a perusal of the latest statistics on the use of the range of FRC-related resources on the FRJ website (www.financialremediesjournal.com) that the vision of providing the ‘go to’ place for financial remedies practitioners has become a reality, with 408,
DR Corner: Introducing Assent: Combining Arbitration and Private FDRs in a Streamlined Process based on the FPR Directions
Anyone who has tried to arrange a Private Financial Dispute Resolution (pFDR) will be familiar with that sinking feeling when the process is slipping away. It starts with a low-level dispute over the judge, the date or the location of the hearing. Then a seemingly innocuous question about disclosure. A
Reform of Financial Provision on Divorce
What’s the problem?
After much hesitation and delay, both from the government and the profession, it seems that at last the Law Commission will set to reforming the law of financial provision on divorce. The significant problems of this area were addressed, but not completely resolved, in the Law
A Reply to Baroness Deech’s Argument for Reform
Conceived as a companion piece to Baroness Deech’s article calling for reform of s 25(2) MCA 1973,[[1]] it soon became clear that writing this was a harder task than I envisaged. That is not because the article is not well written, researched or persuasive. My difficulties were
Source not Title: Some First Reflections on Standish
On 15 and 16 November 2023, Standish v Standish came before a Court of Appeal comprising King, Moylan and Phillips LJJ.
189 days later, Moylan LJ delivered the court’s unanimous decision: Mrs Standish’s (‘W’) appeal was dismissed, and Mr Standish’s (‘H’) appeal allowed, subject to the matter
Your House, My Mortgage: The Decision in Re A and B
Can the Family Court order a party to take out and pay a mortgage in order to meet the other party’s housing needs? This is my framing of the question raised by the appeal in Re A and B (Schedule 1: Arbitral Award: Appeal) [2024] EWHC 778 (Fam). Cobb