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Qualified Legal Representative

Qualified Legal Representatives in Financial Remedy Proceedings

Qualified Legal Representatives in Financial Remedy Proceedings

The recent decision in AXA v BYB (QLR Financial Remedies) [2023] EWFC 251 (B) is the first time in which a qualified legal representative (QLR) was appointed and used in a financial remedies final hearing at the Central Family Court. There had been scant other authorities in respect of QLRs

Re Z (Prohibition on Cross-examination: No QLR) [2024] EWFC 22

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2024/22.html Sir Andrew McFarlane, President of the Family Division. Judgment considering the approach that a judge or magistrate sitting in the Family Court should adopt when the court has directed that a Qualified Legal Representative (QLR) should be appointed for

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

AXA v BYB (QLR: Financial Remedies) [2023] EWFC 251 (B)

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2023/251.html Recorder Rhys Taylor. Facts W (36) and H (41) married in 2017 and separated in 2022. The parties had one child, a daughter, aged 3. Aside from the FMH which had equity of £100,00, the two key assets