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NA v LA [2024] EWFC 113

Judgment date: 24 May 2024 Nicholas Allen KC sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge. A ‘paradigm’ case for the court to exercise its new powers under FPR 3.4 to stay proceedings for the parties to engage in NCDR. The court heard the return date of two orders: (1)

Revised Finance Pre-Action Protocol

Revised Finance Pre-Action Protocol

On 29 April 2024 important changes were made to FPR Part 3 and Part 28 to promote non-court dispute resolution (NCDR). These changes include requiring the court to encourage parties to use NCDR, the introduction of a new form (FM5) requiring parties to set out their views on NCDR, and

Updated Guide on Pensions on Divorce for LiPs Published by Law for Life

Updated Guide on Pensions on Divorce for LiPs Published by Law for Life

In collaboration with the Pension Advisory Group, and thanks to funding from the Nuffield Foundation, Law for Life has published an updated version of its Survival guide to sorting out pensions on divorce. The new version takes into account recent case law, changes to terminology introduced by the Divorce, Dissolution

Standish – the Narrowing of ‘Matrimonialisation’

Standish – the Narrowing of ‘Matrimonialisation’

In L v L [2021] EWFC B83 His Honour Judge Booth (sitting as a judge of the High Court) stated at [26] he had been referred to the concept of ‘matrimonialisation’ but it was ‘a word that I hope will not acquire common usage’. Although not a word in the

Standish Primer in Advance of Court of Appeal Judgment

Standish Primer in Advance of Court of Appeal Judgment

How should a substantial sum of money (in this case £80m) which was partly generated before marriage but transferred to the other spouse during marriage be treated on divorce? Do those funds remain the non-marital property of the person who brought them into the marriage? Have those funds become the