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The Summary of the Summaries (Spring 2023)

The Summary of the Summaries (Spring 2023)

We have summarised the following cases on the Financial Remedies Journal website since the last issue went to press, and now present these as a summary of summaries. Visit the ‘Cases’ tab on the website to search a compendious back catalogue of financial remedies cases via their keywords. A v

Interview with Sir Mathew Thorpe

Interview with Sir Mathew Thorpe

Sir Mathew Thorpe, Barrister from 1961, in silk from 1980, Family Division Judge (1988–95), Lord Justice of Appeal (1995–2013) and Deputy Head of Family Justice and Head of International Family Justice (2005–13). Sir Mathew was interviewed at his Wiltshire home in Autumn 2022. How have you occupied

DOWNLOAD ISSUE 3 - November 2022 (PDF)

DOWNLOAD ISSUE 3 - November 2022 (PDF)

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Chair's Column (Winter 2022)

Chair's Column (Winter 2022)

I am delighted to commend to you the third issue of the Financial Remedies Journal (FRJ) which, without doubt, sustains the standards set in the earlier issues for providing information and debate on the big subjects topical in the financial remedies world. Amongst other riches, readers will enjoy a thoughtful

PAG2: The Continuing Work of the Pension Advisory Group

PAG2: The Continuing Work of the Pension Advisory Group

In July 2019, the Pension Advisory Group (PAG) was pleased to publish its report A Guide to the Treatment of Pensions on Divorce, partially funded by the Nuffield Foundation.[[1]] This publication was expressly endorsed in the Foreword by the President of the Family Division and had the professional sponsorship

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