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Evidencing Earning Capacity: Expert Assessments with Potential for both Cooperation and Conflict

Evidencing Earning Capacity: Expert Assessments with Potential for both Cooperation and Conflict

Embarking on divorce proceedings is not just the end of one chapter of life but the start of a new one. Judges determining applications for financial remedies on divorce or dissolution of civil partnership aim to ensure that the former spouses are each on as stable a financial footing as

Tech Corner: Ethical AI for Family Lawyers

Tech Corner: Ethical AI for Family Lawyers

A conversation between Kay Firth-Butterfield and Rhys Taylor Rhys Taylor: Could you tell me about your current role please? Kay Firth-Butterfield: Currently, I run my own consultancy, education and thought leadership company called Good Tech Advisory through which I give speeches and help companies and countries think about their design,

Money Corner: Spring (Cleaning) Budget: Out with the LTAs and in with the LSAs

Money Corner: Spring (Cleaning) Budget: Out with the LTAs and in with the LSAs

When the Chancellor of the Exchequer received his copy of the Spring 2023 edition of the FRJ, I can only imagine how he chuckled when he reached page 19 and found an article titled ‘Pensions on Divorce – Lifetime Allowance [LTA] Tax Issues’. That was a 4-page article – submitted by George

Financial Remedies Case Round-Up (Mid-January 2024 to end April 2024)

Financial Remedies Case Round-Up (Mid-January 2024 to end April 2024)

Schedule 1 cases Like buses, cases on particular areas of law come along one after the other after what feels like a large gap of time. In this quarter, there are a number of interesting decisions relating to Sch 1 Children Act 1989. Re A v B (Schedule 1: Arbitral

The Summary of the Summaries (Summer 2024)

The Summary of the Summaries (Summer 2024)

BR v BR [2024] EWFC 11 (Peel J) When should a single joint expert (SJE) be instructed rather than two or more separately instructed experts in financial remedy proceedings? The default position is that, wherever possible, an SJE should be directed rather than giving permission for two or more experts

Interview with Baroness Hale

Interview with Baroness Hale

.jpeg) Whether you know her as ‘the Beyoncé of the legal world’[[1]] or ‘call me Brenda’ (as she modestly introduces herself), Baroness Hale of Richmond is an exceptional woman and an exceptional lawyer. The first woman from her school to go to Cambridge – at a time when only 2.

Chair's Column (Spring 2024)

Chair's Column (Spring 2024)

The Financial Remedies Journal now enters its third year, and this edition is fizzing with interesting comments and ideas. Transparency and the FRC Pilot One of the issues of the moment for family lawyers is the extent to which the press should be able to identify in public the names