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Financial Remedies Journal – 2024 Issue 3 | Winter

Financial Remedies Journal – 2024 Issue 3 | Winter

Issue 3 of 2024 was published in November 2024. Download the whole Journal as a PDF (for free) below. All articles in the Journal are also available individually. DOWNLOAD 2024 ISSUE 3 – Winter 2024 (PDF)FRJCompanies House – Housing Companies’ InformationCompanies House is an executive agency of the UK government&

Ma v Roux: Can You Strike Out a Set Aside Application?

Ma v Roux: Can You Strike Out a Set Aside Application?

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2024/1917 It was settled in Wyatt v Vince [2015] UKSC 14, [2015] 1 FLR 972 that the court cannot strike-out/give summary judgment on a legally recognisable application for a financial remedy order as an applicant is entitled to have such an

Peel J – Guidance on allocation of a case to HCJ level published in May 2024.

https://www.judiciary.uk/guidance-and-resources/allocation-of-financial-remedies-cases-to-high-court-judge-level/

A v R [2024] EWFC 218 (B)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/218 This judgment by DJ Dodsworth examines the legal principles relevant to raising conduct arguments in financial remedy proceedings. Background A (aged 52) and R (aged 56) met in 1993, they began cohabiting in 1996. They subsequently married in 2004. A previously

Enhancing Public Understanding of Financial Remedies on Divorce

Enhancing Public Understanding of Financial Remedies on Divorce

Introduction Why is it that lawyers think that the principles underpinning financial remedies are clear, and yet the public are often perplexed? The issue is one of communication, or rather translating the law into plain English. Our clients frequently feel disconnected when lawyers discuss the law, and particularly when writing

Are You Guilty of Money-Laundering? A Tale of Chinese Cotton, Lawyer’s Fees and Unintended Consequences

Are You Guilty of Money-Laundering? A Tale of Chinese Cotton, Lawyer’s Fees and Unintended Consequences

It is not often that a family law blog warns ordinary hard-working honest family lawyers that they might be unwitting criminals. This is that blog. You should read it. Remember POCA, NCIS and all that? One of the common results of the necessity for parties to financial remedies to give