P v M (Appeal: Unfair Hearing: Variation of Periodical Payments: Global Orders) [2026] EWHC 1330 (Fam)
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2026/1330
Qualified Legal Representative
K v P (Criminal Solicitor as Court-Appointed QLR) [2025] EWFC 321
Sir Andrew McFarlane, President of the Family Division. A court-appointed QLR was terminated in children proceedings where the same QLR was acting in a parallel criminal case, as the dual representation undermines the protective aims of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 scheme for vulnerable witnesses.
Qualified Legal Representatives in Financial Remedy Proceedings
The recent decision in AXA v BYB (QLR Financial Remedies) [2023] EWFC 251 (B) is the first time in which a qualified legal representative (QLR) was appointed and used in a financial remedies final hearing at the Central Family Court. There had been scant other authorities in respect of QLRs
Re Z (Prohibition on Cross-examination: No QLR) [2024] EWFC 22
Judgment date: 09 February 2024
https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2024/22.html
Sir Andrew McFarlane, President of the Family Division. Judgment considering the approach that a judge or magistrate sitting in the Family Court should adopt when the court has directed that a Qualified Legal Representative
Why Become a QLR?
‘I’ve heard it’s not well organised’
‘You’ll make no money’
‘It seems like more work than it’s worth’
These are the usual comments I receive when I tell people I undertake work as a Qualified Legal Representative (QLR). Still a relatively new scheme, the Family Court
AXA v BYB (QLR: Financial Remedies) [2023] EWFC 251 (B)
Judgment date: 18 December 2023
https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2023/251.html
Recorder Rhys Taylor.
Facts
W (36) and H (41) married in 2017 and separated in 2022. The parties had one child, a daughter, aged 3. Aside from the FMH which had equity of £100,