Book Review: Staying Sane in Family Law
Sharon Segal KC of 1GC Family Law reviews the book Staying Sane in Family Law by Annmarie Carvalho, a 2025 book from Bath Publishing.
Journal
Important Recent Case Developments (mid-May 2025 to mid-September 2025)
These are the noteworthy case-law developments since the last issue went to press in May 2025. In addition to our two principal ‘big cases’ – Standish v Standish and Radmacher v Granatino – there are several other judgments that make useful points.
The Summary of the Summaries (Winter 2025)
Liam Kelly rounds up cases recently summarised on the FRJ website, including CA v UK, THR v Wat and JQ v IQ.
Interview with David Salter
Nicholas Allen KC and Ellie Foster interview David Salter, beginning with how he came to study law at university.
Chair’s Column
Transparency
The transparency debate – in the context of practices on anonymisation and rubrics – receives another punchy analysis from Sir Nicholas Mostyn in this issue of the journal in his article ‘Re-multiplied Propagation’. The difficulty here is that most of the judgments identified in his article (at High Court Judge level
Class Legal Financial Remedies Awards 2025
Financial Remedies Conference, 16 October 2025
Ten years ago, Class Legal staged its inaugural financial remedies conference, the At A Glance Conference. Retitled this year as the Financial Remedies Conference, it remains the finest such conference in the calendar. This year’s, to be held on 16 October 2025 at
Foreign Property Regimes and English Matrimonial Finance: Parity or Particularity?
Introduction
Since the landmark decision in Radmacher v Granatino [2010] UKSC 42, [2011] 1 AC 534, English law has recognised the legitimacy of pre-nuptial agreements. As family life becomes increasingly international, the courts regularly encounter a wide variety of agreements, including those signed abroad.
The most common form of foreign