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Someone! Do Something About Costs! The Single Lawyer Solution

Someone! Do Something About Costs! The Single Lawyer Solution

In an appendix to his judgment in the ruinous case of KSO v MJO & Ors [2008] EWHC 3031 (Fam), in which the parties managed to expend all but about 28% of the net assets in costs, Munby J returned us to Dickens’ excoriating passage in Bleak House:[[1]] ‘“For

‘For Reasons Which Are Not Fanciful’ – Daniels v Walker Applications in Financial Remedy Cases

‘For Reasons Which Are Not Fanciful’ – Daniels v Walker Applications in Financial Remedy Cases

More than 22 years after it was decided, there remains no reported decision in a financial remedies case in which a court has provided guidance in relation to whether or not to grant a so-called Daniels v Walker [2000] EWCA Civ 508, [2000] 1 WLR 1382 application for the instruction

Waking Up and Smelling the Coffee – International Tax Considerations in Financial Remedy Applications

Waking Up and Smelling the Coffee – International Tax Considerations in Financial Remedy Applications

This article came to be written via a chance meeting in a coffee shop between Sarah Lucy Cooper, a family practitioner specialising in international cases, and Dilpreet Dhanoa, a specialist in tax, one early morning on the way to court. The purpose of this article is not to provide an

Predatory Marriage – The Great Inheritance Scam?

Predatory Marriage – The Great Inheritance Scam?

The term ‘predatory marriage’ is not a legal concept, but rather a convenient descriptor for a marriage entered into in circumstances where one party to the marriage is vulnerable and has been induced to enter into the marriage by the other party who is acting solely for financial gain. The

Cryptoassets – Still an Enigma?

Cryptoassets – Still an Enigma?

or Alice and Bob’s Adventures in Cryptoland: understanding the basics of crypto – a roadmap for the uninitiated As at October 2022, the time of writing this article, the market capital of Bitcoin is US$400 billion, down from a high of US$870 billion just last year. Despite the

Pound for Pound Orders: Are They Legal?

Pound for Pound Orders: Are They Legal?

It is now over 20 years since Holman J, in A v A (Maintenance Pending Suit: Payment of Legal Fees) [2001] 1 FLR 377, recognised that a maintenance order could reasonably include a contribution towards the payment of legal fees. At the time he handed down his decision, the Judge

Women in Good Shape

Women in Good Shape

Reading Farhana Shahzady on ‘Menopause – turning the clock back for women’ ([2022] 2 FRJ 148) caused me to be even more fearful than usual about the progress of women’s equality, freedom, respect and opportunity in the workplace and in education. After a lifetime of fighting for more freedom for