Financial Remedies Journal - Issue 2 | Summer 2022

Issue 2 (Summer 2022) was published in July 2022.

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DR Corner: Mediation in the Wake of WL v HL – Low-Hanging Fruit or Golden Opportunity?
Traditional perceptions of mediation: ‘[M]ediated cases are self-evidently the easiest to settle; the low fruit of the dispute resolution world. Quite rightly this will always remain so. But my nagging concern about the mediation process remains; that …
Getting Blood Out of a Stone – Handling the Uncooperative Ex-Spouse
The Origins of the Financial Remedies Court – an Insider’s View (Part 2)
Schedule 1 Property Structures
Menopause – Turning the Clock Back for Women?
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Tech Corner: iPad Pro (2021) Review, Or, as a Solicitor, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love a Tablet
Sharing and the Family Home
Dodgy Digital Documents: Where Are We Now? Where Are We Going?
Some Sunlight Seeps In
In relation to transparency in the Financial Remedies Court (FRC) there are further signs that the tectonic plates are shifting.
Interview with Lord Sumption
Lord Sumption interviewed by Alexander Chandler QC.
Security for Costs in Family Proceedings
Schedule 1 Remedies for the Older Child
HHJ Hess recently handed down a helpful decision as to jurisdiction under Schedule 1 for an adult child in <em>J &amp; K v L (Schedule 1: Older Children)</em> [2021] EWFC B104. While this decision is non-binding, the judgment offers an exceptionally lucid and helpful analysis of existing case law.
Financial Remedies Case Round-Up: February to April 2022
Cases from February to April 2022.
Privacy and Transparency in the Financial Remedies Court
Mltpl: A New Business Valuation Tool
Business valuations are often associated with high costs, long delays and, in many instances, subjective analysis and unsupported conclusions. Inevitably, questions arise as to their utility, given their inherent fragility.
Money Corner: Pension Taxation - A Tax on Ambition is Never Wise
<strong>Pension classification</strong> &ndash; Most pension arrangements will be either one, or a hybrid, of the following arrangements: <em>Defined contribution (DC) (also known as &lsquo;money purchase&rsquo;);</em> the retirement benefits (or income) are defined by the contributions you make.
Chair's Column
In my introduction to the first issue, I reported that one of our missions is to promote serious and high-level debate and thought about the workings of the world of financial remedies. I could not have imagined a better example of this than the contents of this second issue.
The Financial Remedies Court: The Road Ahead
Domestic Abuse in Financial Remedy Cases
While domestic abuse is one of the issues currently at the top of the family law agenda, it is not as prominent in financial remedy work as it is in children work and professional discussion is limited.
Both Sides Now: DN v UD
<em>UD v DN (Schedule 1, Children Act 1989; Capital Provision)</em> [2021] EWCA Civ 1947 is one of only a handful of cases under Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989 (Schedule 1) to have made it to the Court of Appeal since <em>Re P (Child: Financial Provision)</em> [2003] EWCA Civ 837.
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