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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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How Private FDRs Can Be Improved

How Private FDRs Can Be Improved

"Perhaps the only certainty about an FDR indication is that the outcome at final hearing is almost bound to be different” As family lawyers, we are good at some things; less so at others. Our strong suit is thinking creatively and holistically in finding a solution to any given

Have We Been Getting It Wrong for the Past 75 Years? Privacy, Secrecy and the Financial Remedies Court

Have We Been Getting It Wrong for the Past 75 Years? Privacy, Secrecy and the Financial Remedies Court

The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley starts with one of the most celebrated opening lines in literature: ‘The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.’ Historically, the same could be said of the Family Division, where a husband or wife could obtain a Mareva injunction, or pierce

Interview with Lord Sumption

Interview with Lord Sumption

In ‘Family law at a distance’,[[1]] you spoke about the benefits of cross-fertilisation. As a practitioner, were you ever interested in family law? Did you ever come across family law practice? No, I was a commercial practitioner. I had two exposures to family law before I went to the

BT v CU [2021] EWFC 87: Barder, Thwaite, Drafting Lump Sums and Anonymisation

BT v CU [2021] EWFC 87: Barder, Thwaite, Drafting Lump Sums and Anonymisation

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2021/87.html Sometimes in law, as in life, things do not turn out expectedly. BT v CU was intended to be a test case for whether COVID was capable of being a Barder event. H’s argument was that the pandemic

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 and private FDR judge, posts blogs at familybrief.org, and tweets @familybrief.