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Report of the Duxbury Working Party (provisional), September 2024

Report of the Duxbury Working Party (provisional), September 2024

Provisional report: This report has been prepared without any prior public consultation. It is published provisionally to allow interested parties to respond. Responses should be emailed to j.rainer@qeb.co.uk by 1 November 2024 and will be considered by the Working Party ahead of publication of our final

Till Debt Do Us Part: Bankruptcy and Financial Remedies

Till Debt Do Us Part: Bankruptcy and Financial Remedies

Financial remedies practitioners are well-accustomed to advising parties in straitened financial circumstances. Often the central question is how to stretch the available resources to ensure both parties have a roof over their heads. However, when one or both parties find themselves in serious financial difficulty, a less familiar issue may

Who’s Courtney? And Is She Helpful?

Who’s Courtney? And Is She Helpful?

On 10 September 2024, the first ever audio-visual legal library – demonstrating the key hearings and processes in English financial family law – arrived. Twenty years after YouTube landed, it is now possible to view the practical activity within an FDR, for example. Unlike the well-known digital libraries supplied by the international

Ma v Roux: Can You Strike Out a Set Aside Application?

Ma v Roux: Can You Strike Out a Set Aside Application?

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2024/1917 It was settled in Wyatt v Vince [2015] UKSC 14, [2015] 1 FLR 972 that the court cannot strike-out/give summary judgment on a legally recognisable application for a financial remedy order as an applicant is entitled to have such an

Enhancing Public Understanding of Financial Remedies on Divorce

Enhancing Public Understanding of Financial Remedies on Divorce

Introduction Why is it that lawyers think that the principles underpinning financial remedies are clear, and yet the public are often perplexed? The issue is one of communication, or rather translating the law into plain English. Our clients frequently feel disconnected when lawyers discuss the law, and particularly when writing

Are You Guilty of Money-Laundering? A Tale of Chinese Cotton, Lawyer’s Fees and Unintended Consequences

Are You Guilty of Money-Laundering? A Tale of Chinese Cotton, Lawyer’s Fees and Unintended Consequences

It is not often that a family law blog warns ordinary hard-working honest family lawyers that they might be unwitting criminals. This is that blog. You should read it. Remember POCA, NCIS and all that? One of the common results of the necessity for parties to financial remedies to give