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Chair's Column (Winter 2024)

Chair's Column (Winter 2024)

Duxbury For more than three decades the Duxbury tables have held a strong position in the determination of outcomes in financial remedies cases involving the capitalisation of maintenance obligations. In the Spring 2023 edition of the FRJ, we published ‘Looking Back at Duxbury 30 Years On’ by Michael Allum et

Tech Corner: Separate Space – How Tech can be Leveraged to Bridge the Access to Justice Gap

Tech Corner: Separate Space – How Tech can be Leveraged to Bridge the Access to Justice Gap

The fusion of family law and cutting-edge technology is no longer a distant prospect – it’s a reality that will reshape the way legal services are delivered. In this article, Victoria Nottage and Amanda Bell argue that not only will technology bring positive changes to the ways that lawyers provide

Companies House – Housing Companies’ Information

Companies House – Housing Companies’ Information

Prior to 1844, ‘incorporation’ was only possible by Royal Charter, or by a private Act of Parliament. However, since neither Queen Victoria nor Robert Peel (the Prime Minister at the time) liked paperwork very much, an ‘Act for the Registration, Incorporation, and Regulation of Joint Stock Companies’ was drafted and

Book Review: Research Handbook on Family Property and the Law

Book Review: Research Handbook on Family Property and the Law

Property plays a key role within our family lives. Moreover, we may tend to perceive that there is something inherently ‘special’ about the family, which means that it – and the property associated with it – should be set apart, and treated differently, to the various forms of partnership located within other

Hemain Injunctions: How to Get Them and When not to Resist Them

Hemain Injunctions: How to Get Them and When not to Resist Them

Part one: the preliminaries I remember vividly the very first time I made an application for a Hemain injunction. The application, made in the Central Family Court, was on behalf of a party seeking an English divorce in circumstances where the other party, who had issued proceedings elsewhere, had applied

A Practical Guide on How to Select your Expert, Reviewing the Expert's Report and When to Consider Engaging a Shadow Expert

A Practical Guide on How to Select your Expert, Reviewing the Expert's Report and When to Consider Engaging a Shadow Expert

Introduction I am an accredited expert witness and am instructed on 40 to 50 matrimonial cases each year. A significant number of these instructions are as single joint expert (SJE) or party expert providing an opinion on the valuation of a business or shareholding. I also act in cases requiring

The Winds of Change – Case Management and the Financial Remedies Court

The Winds of Change – Case Management and the Financial Remedies Court

Introduction Once upon a time, not so long ago, ‘ancillary relief’ was something of a legal backwater. Cases were determined solely by reference to ‘reasonable requirements’.[[1]] Procedural rules, to the extent they existed,[[2]] were short and loosely applied. Parties filed narrative affidavits of means and answered requests for