R v R [2021] EWHC 195

If asked, Mr Standish may say that three rounds of litigation, with another to follow, were worth it – Mrs Standish, perhaps not. But for lawyers, with many questions left unanswered, and a feeling that the opportunity to settle the law on matrimonialisation with clarity and certainty has passed us by,

In ‘Post-Separation Income: Has Rossi Survived Waggott and Standish?’ (5 February 2025), Nicholas Allen KC considered the potential impact of Waggott v Waggott [2018] 2 FLR 406 on the argument that income (or the assets or capital generated therefrom) earned in or referable to the first 12 months post-separation should

“The traditional law, that English justice must be administered openly in the face of all men, is an almost priceless inheritance” Earl Loreburn in Scott v Scott [1913] AC 417 Sir Nicholas Mostyn presented on this topic at the Bar Council’s law reform lecture 2025, on 2 July 2025.