Efficient Conduct

Tech Corner: Miris Reporting – Innovative Technology to Help Solicitors Prepare, Verify and Negotiate Client Housing Needs

Tech Corner: Miris Reporting – Innovative Technology to Help Solicitors Prepare, Verify and Negotiate Client Housing Needs

Introduction This article reviews how solicitors currently fulfil the filing requirements of the 2022 Statement on the Efficient Conduct of Financial Remedy Hearings in the Financial Remedies Court below High Court Judge Level (the Efficiency Statement). It documents the specific challenges of producing indicative borrowing capacity material, going on to

T v T and Others (Disregard for Procedural Rules, Adjournment) [2025] EWFC 14 (B)

Judgment date: 29 January 2025 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2025/14 Recorder Chandler KC was forced to adjourn a three-day hearing in the face of W’s legal aid solicitors failing to comply with the Family Court’s procedures. The judge made it clear that where a

RG v TA (Appeal: Legal Services Funding Order: Schedule 1 Children Act 1989) [2023] EWHC 3155 (Fam)

Judgment date: 06 October 2023 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2023/3155 Roberts J. Appeal from HHJ Ellis who had refused F’s application for a legal services payment order of £125,000 in relation to his s 8 and Schedule 1 applications. F’s Sch 1 application

O v O [2023] EWFC 161

Judgment date: 01 October 2023 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2023/161.html Recorder Laura Moys. 41-page decision following a three-day final hearing. H is a litigant in person. The parties’ relationship lasted 18 years and the marriage for 16 years. There are two children of the

GA v EL [2023] EWFC 187

Judgment date: 31 October 2023 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2023/187.html Peel J. Daniels v Walker application made by the Wife ('W') at a Pre-Trial Review in financial remedy proceedings. Background * The parties married in 2007 and separated in November 2019. They are

DR Corner: The Drive for Gender Diversity in Private FDRs

DR Corner: The Drive for Gender Diversity in Private FDRs

Pressures on court time and the increasing use of remote courts over the COVID-19 pandemic have led to the increasing popularity and success of Private FDRs within (and instead of) financial remedy proceedings within the last 5 years. A Private FDR is a ‘without prejudice’ hearing which can be used