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Calling All Undergraduates: Join the Financial Remedies Journal's Essay Competition for 2024

Calling All Undergraduates: Join the Financial Remedies Journal's Essay Competition for 2024

The editorial board of the Financial Remedies Journal is delighted to announce the launch of a new essay competition which is open to any undergraduate law or combined law student from a university in England and Wales. The essay competition is designed to give undergraduate law students with an interest

Why Become a QLR?

Why Become a QLR?

‘I’ve heard it’s not well organised’ ‘You’ll make no money’ ‘It seems like more work than it’s worth’ These are the usual comments I receive when I tell people I undertake work as a Qualified Legal Representative (QLR). Still a relatively new scheme, the Family Court

The PAG2 Guide – What Has Changed?

The PAG2 Guide – What Has Changed?

The publication of the Pension Advisory Group (PAG2) guidance in December 2023 marked the end of another lengthy and significant piece of interdisciplinary work by experienced practitioners in the field of pensions on divorce. Much has already been written about the new guide and the overall changes, so the aim

The Unopposable Application for a Penal Notice

The Unopposable Application for a Penal Notice

There are relatively few applications for a court order in financial remedy proceedings that cannot be opposed and which are bound to succeed. One is an application for a penal notice. As paragraph 59(c) of the Interim Report of the Financial Remedies Group dated 31st July 2014 stated: '

When Is an Add-Back Not an Add-Back?

When Is an Add-Back Not an Add-Back?

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2023/244.html So-called ‘small money’ cases have historically been rarely published. However, the President’s Confidence and Confidentiality: Transparency in the Family Courts Report of 29 October 2021, in which he asked all judges to publish at least 10% of their

Guideline Hourly Rates on Costs

Guideline Hourly Rates on Costs

In H v GH [2023] EWFC 235 Simon Colton KC, sitting as a deputy High Court judge, struck out a husband’s application to extend payment of a lump sum for two years. When he then proceeded to summarily assess the costs he raised with the parties the relevance, or

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