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‘What’s In a Name?’ Anonymising Financial Remedy Judgments

‘What’s In a Name?’ Anonymising Financial Remedy Judgments

This article addresses four questions posed by Sir Nicholas Mostyn: (1) How engrained is the practice of anonymisation in financial remedy (FR) judgments? (2) What rationale was given in those cases for naming the parties or anonymisation? (3) What is my view of the legal issues in relation to anonymity?

The Use and Misuse of the Rubric in the Family Courts

The Use and Misuse of the Rubric in the Family Courts

In a familiar line of cases of which the first was BT v CU [2021] EWFC 87, [2022] 1 WLR 1349, paras [100]–[114], and the last In re PP (A Child: Anonymisation) [2023] EWHC 330 (Fam), [2023] 4 WLR 48, paras [49]–[62], and Augousti v Matharu [2023] EWHC

Law Commission – Contempt of Court Project: Memorandum by Sir James Munby (26 September 2022)

Law Commission – Contempt of Court Project: Memorandum by Sir James Munby (26 September 2022)

1⁠. I have been professionally involved for over 30 years, first as a barrister and then as a judge, with the related issues of contempt of court and transparency, as it is now called, especially in relation to the family justice system. My focus here is with the family justice

Family Law – Not the Poor Relation

Family Law – Not the Poor Relation

Paper delivered (remotely from France) by Hon Mr Justice Mostyn to the 19th National Family Law Conference, Adelaide, South Australia, on Tuesday 16 August 2022. 1⁠. My proposition is that family law is not the poor relation when it comes to resolving complex financial issues between adults who happen to