Sam Watts
Sam Watts is a barrister at Coram Chambers. He has an established practice in financial remedies, including claims under TLATA 1996 and Part III MFPA 1984.
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Finality and Funding: The Implications of a Clean Break following CC v UU
The judgment of Peel J in CC v UU [2025] EWFC 214 provides a further glimpse of the LSPO regime, and seeks to establish definitively when the opportunity to seek an LSPO ceases.
Gottle O’ Geer: Witness Statements and Their Misuse
Most financial remedy cases don’t ‘go to trial’, for a host of good reasons: litigation is expensive, stressful and uncertain: even the strongest-looking cases have been known to develop cracks when exposed to cross-examination. Sometimes these emerge in answer to the gentlest of questioning.
Ministry of Justice Breaches the Overriding Objective
It is fundamental to the procedural code that dealing with a case justly includes ‘expeditiously and fairly’. The savage cuts imposed by the MOJ, with very limited notice and no widespread consultation, will lead to ‘justice delayed’, i.e. ‘justice denied’.