Fiona Stewart

Fiona is a barrister at QEB. She acts in all aspects of private family law including financial remedies, cohabitation disputes, private law children a...

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Vulnerable Clients within Financial Remedies: A Brief Guide

[2026] 1 FRJ 47. Practitioners in the financial remedies field need to be aware of the impact of vulnerability on a party’s ability to participate in proceedings and to give evidence, the mechanism for addressing this and the potential harm of not doing so. This article provides a concise guide.

Sharing and the Family Home

Sharing and the Family Home

Historically, a wife’s property was absorbed into that of her husband on marriage, and she was not capable of ownership in her own name thereafter. This situation, after some modest changes in the 1870s, finally changed for good with the Married Women’s Property Act 1882 (MWPA 1882). This

Sharing and the Family Home

Sharing and the Family Home

Historically, a wife’s property was absorbed into that of her husband on marriage, and she was not capable of ownership in her own name thereafter. This situation, after some modest changes in the 1870s, finally changed for good with the Married Women’s Property Act 1882 (MWPA 1882). This

Fiona Stewart

Fiona is a barrister at QEB. She acts in all aspects of private family law including financial remedies, cohabitation disputes, private law children and applications brought under the Family Law Act 1996. She has experience of jurisdiction disputes and also in Inheritance Act claims.

Fiona Stewart

Fiona is a barrister at QEB. She acts in all aspects of private family law including financial remedies, cohabitation disputes, private law children and applications brought under the Family Law Act 1996. She has experience of jurisdiction disputes and also in Inheritance Act claims.