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HHJ Edward Hess | Chair of the Editorial Board

HHJ Edward Hess | Chair of the Editorial Board

His Honour Judge Edward Hess is a Circuit Judge, Lead Judge of the London Financial Remedies Court, Deputy High Court Judge and Deputy National Lead J...

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Chair's Column (Spring 2024)

Chair's Column (Spring 2024)

The Law Commission Scoping Report This is the first issue of the FRJ since the Law Commission’s ‘scoping report’ was published in December 2024. The essence of a scoping report is that it steps back and paints an overview. It presents options (to the government or to Parliament); but

Reflections on the Law Commission Paper Financial remedies on divorce and dissolution: a scoping report published on 18 December 2024

Reflections on the Law Commission Paper Financial remedies on divorce and dissolution: a scoping report published on 18 December 2024

Whilst the figures do vary from year to year, a broad perusal of the official statistics suggests that each year in England and Wales approximately 250,000 couples get married and approximately 100,000 applications for a divorce (formerly divorce petitions) are made. Almost all divorce applications conclude with a

Interview with Sir Nicholas Francis

Interview with Sir Nicholas Francis

.png) Nicholas Allen KC and HHJ Edward Hess interviewed Sir Nicholas Francis over dinner in December 2024, a few months after he retired from the High Court Bench If I remember correctly, you didn’t originally want to be a family lawyer, you wanted to be a shipping lawyer. Is

Chair's Column (Winter 2024)

Chair's Column (Winter 2024)

Duxbury For more than three decades the Duxbury tables have held a strong position in the determination of outcomes in financial remedies cases involving the capitalisation of maintenance obligations. In the Spring 2023 edition of the FRJ, we published ‘Looking Back at Duxbury 30 Years On’ by Michael Allum et

Chair’s Column (Summer 2024)

Chair’s Column (Summer 2024)

The FRJ website I am delighted to see from a perusal of the latest statistics on the use of the range of FRC-related resources on the FRJ website (www.financialremediesjournal.com) that the vision of providing the ‘go to’ place for financial remedies practitioners has become a reality, with 408,

Chair's Column (Spring 2024)

Chair's Column (Spring 2024)

The Financial Remedies Journal now enters its third year, and this edition is fizzing with interesting comments and ideas. Transparency and the FRC Pilot One of the issues of the moment for family lawyers is the extent to which the press should be able to identify in public the names

Chair’s Column (Winter 2023)

Chair’s Column (Winter 2023)

Once again, I am very pleased to commend to you another issue of the Financial Remedies Journal packed with compelling and engaging material. Peel J looks back on his first year in charge of the Financial Remedies Court (FRC), finding it for the most part in good health, and looks