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The Summary of the Summaries (Winter 2024)

The Summary of the Summaries (Winter 2024)

TY v XA [2024] EWFC 96 (Moor J) Ripples from the decision in Potanin v Potanina [2024] UKSC 3. Moor J reiterated that Potanin had not changed the basic test for the grant of leave to apply for financial relief under Part III MFPA 1984, which should from now on

Interview with Nigel Shepherd

Interview with Nigel Shepherd

Nigel Shepherd is a former partner and national head of Family Law at Mills & Reeve, retiring as a consultant at the firm in October 2024. He was national Chair of Resolution 1995–1997 and again 2016–2018, the only person to have held that role twice and was given

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Chair’s Column (Summer 2024)

Chair’s Column (Summer 2024)

The FRJ website I am delighted to see from a perusal of the latest statistics on the use of the range of FRC-related resources on the FRJ website (www.financialremediesjournal.com) that the vision of providing the ‘go to’ place for financial remedies practitioners has become a reality, with 408,

DR Corner: Introducing Assent: Combining Arbitration and Private FDRs in a Streamlined Process based on the FPR Directions

DR Corner: Introducing Assent: Combining Arbitration and Private FDRs in a Streamlined Process based on the FPR Directions

Anyone who has tried to arrange a Private Financial Dispute Resolution (pFDR) will be familiar with that sinking feeling when the process is slipping away. It starts with a low-level dispute over the judge, the date or the location of the hearing. Then a seemingly innocuous question about disclosure. A

Reform of Financial Provision on Divorce

Reform of Financial Provision on Divorce

What’s the problem? After much hesitation and delay, both from the government and the profession, it seems that at last the Law Commission will set to reforming the law of financial provision on divorce. The significant problems of this area were addressed, but not completely resolved, in the Law

A Reply to Baroness Deech’s Argument for Reform

A Reply to Baroness Deech’s Argument for Reform

Conceived as a companion piece to Baroness Deech’s article calling for reform of s 25(2) MCA 1973,[[1]] it soon became clear that writing this was a harder task than I envisaged. That is not because the article is not well written, researched or persuasive. My difficulties were