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Alexander Chandler KC

Alexander Chandler KC

Alexander Chandler KC is a barrister specialising in financial remedies and TLATA at 1 King’s Bench Walk in London. He sits as a Recorder, Arbitrator ...

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James Turner KC (1952–2025): An Obituary

James Turner KC (1952–2025): An Obituary

James Turner KC, who has died aged 72, was a titan of the bar. In an increasingly specialised legal world, he had a uniquely broad practice for a family barrister: financial remedies, child abduction, divorce, crime, judicial review, medical disciplinary work and administrative law. He appeared in over 200 reported

The Winds of Change – Case Management and the Financial Remedies Court

The Winds of Change – Case Management and the Financial Remedies Court

Introduction Once upon a time, not so long ago, ‘ancillary relief’ was something of a legal backwater. Cases were determined solely by reference to ‘reasonable requirements’.[[1]] Procedural rules, to the extent they existed,[[2]] were short and loosely applied. Parties filed narrative affidavits of means and answered requests for

What’s the Point of a Judgment? Examples, Authorities and the Panopticon

What’s the Point of a Judgment? Examples, Authorities and the Panopticon

Cast your mind back to the first time you sat in court and heard a judgment handed down, before you became familiar with its content, structure and duration. I can recall sitting as a pupil in the back of an overheated district judge’s chambers in Kent. The final hearing

‘What’s In a Name?’ Anonymising Financial Remedy Judgments

‘What’s In a Name?’ Anonymising Financial Remedy Judgments

This article addresses four questions posed by Sir Nicholas Mostyn: (1) How engrained is the practice of anonymisation in financial remedy (FR) judgments? (2) What rationale was given in those cases for naming the parties or anonymisation? (3) What is my view of the legal issues in relation to anonymity?

What Is the True Extent of FDR Privilege?

What Is the True Extent of FDR Privilege?

In L v O (Stay of Order; Hadkinson Order; Security for Costs) [2024] EWFC 6 (26 January 2024) Cobb J considered whether a judge hearing a Barder (or Thwaite) application can/should be made aware of what took place at the FDR appointment where the original order was agreed and

Two Important Cases in One Day: Churchill v Merthyr Tydfil and TUI v Griffiths

Two Important Cases in One Day: Churchill v Merthyr Tydfil and TUI v Griffiths

As the old saying goes, you wait ages for a London bus; then two arrive at once. Today (29 November 2023) the Supreme Court (Lords Hodge, Lloyd-Jones, Briggs, Burros and Stephens) handed down judgment in TUI v Griffiths [2023] UKSC 48 (‘Griffiths’), while the Court of Appeal (Carr LCJ, Vos

Final Hearings: a User’s Guide

Final Hearings: a User’s Guide

In Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell advanced the concept of the 10,000 Hour Rule, whereby the key to achieving expertise is relentless practice. The examples given ranged from Bill Gates’ access to computers as a youth and the Beatles performing 1,200 times from 1960 to 1964.