Compensation

Maybe Compensation Isn’t What You Think

Maybe Compensation Isn’t What You Think

[2026] 2 FRJ 118. The compensation principle set out in Miller; McFarlane is the logical next step in ending discrimination between different but equal contributions. Compensation is a vehicle to alleviate post-divorce disparity, to give both spouses an equal start on the road to independent living.

AT v BT: The Return of Compensation

AT v BT: The Return of Compensation

In AT v BT [2023] EWHC 3531 Francis J considered what he described (at [4]) as ‘the proper approach of the court to the sharing principle and to the principle of compensation’ given that ‘the husband maintains that this is a pure needs case and the wife asserts that this

Has the Sign on the Blind Alley Been Lifted? The Possible Return of Compensation

Has the Sign on the Blind Alley Been Lifted? The Possible Return of Compensation

The concept of compensation in financial remedy proceedings has, since its inception in 2006, been a divisive principle. On the one hand, it is a principle that underpins the very reason that the justice system exists: to compel restitution; on the other hand, it can be seen to be a