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What Is a ‘Predicament of Real Need’?

What Is a ‘Predicament of Real Need’?

In Radmacher (Formerly Granatino) v Granatino [2010] 2 FLR 1900 at [81] Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers said that of the three strands identified in White v White [2000] 2 FLR 981 and Miller/McFarlane [2006] 1 FLR 1186 it was needs and compensation which could most readily render it

Notionally Flawed? Notional Assessments in LSPO Applications

Notionally Flawed? Notional Assessments in LSPO Applications

The past weeks have brought two more High Court judgments considering the practice of deducting a percentage from an LSPO applicant’s costs provision by way of a ‘notional standard assessment’. The first, JK v LM [2024] EWHC 1442 (Fam), was a judgment of Cobb J doubling down on the

Important Development in the Marinos/Munro Saga

Important Development in the Marinos/Munro Saga

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/163 A more detailed explanation of the background to this issue can be found in a blog Prof David Hodson OBE KC(Hons) MCIArb and I wrote for the FRJ earlier this year, but in considerable summary the position is as follows.

V v W [2024] EWFC 111

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/111 Poole J. The issues for determination were: 1. Does this court have jurisdiction to hear dissolution proceedings in relation to a French pacte civil de solidarite, ‘PACS’ (a form of civil partnership)? 2. If so, is the forum conveniens for dissolution proceedings

DOWNLOAD 2024 ISSUE 2 – Summer 2024 (PDF)

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Galbraith Tables v2: Why they Have Changed

Galbraith Tables v2: Why they Have Changed

Some two years have now passed since the First Edition of the Galbraith Tables were published. Much has happened within this intervening period. We, the authors, felt the need to produce a revised edition. This article discusses what has changed and why it has proved necessary for the new version