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Groundhog Day: a Response to the Report of the Financial Remedies Sub-Group of the Transparency Implementation Group

Groundhog Day: a Response to the Report of the Financial Remedies Sub-Group of the Transparency Implementation Group

The Financial Remedies Sub-Group of The Transparency Implementation Group, chaired by HHJ Farquhar, has produced its long-awaited Final Report, dated April 2023 but published in May 2023, Transparency in the Financial Remedies Court. It is a long, detailed and in many ways impressive report though unhappily, as we shall see,

Final Report of Financial Remedies subgroup of TIG

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Family Justice: Ostiis Apertis? Or a mantle of inviolable secrecy? A challenge to those who would keep the doors closed

Family Justice: Ostiis Apertis? Or a mantle of inviolable secrecy? A challenge to those who would keep the doors closed

Family Justice: Ostiis Apertis?[[1]] Or a mantle of inviolable secrecy?[[2]] A challenge to those who would keep the doors closed Sir James Munby 12 January 2023 On 28 October 2021 the President published the outcome of his Transparency Review: Confidence and Confidentiality: Transparency in the Family Courts. What

Announcement: Financial Remedies Practice 2023/24

Announcement: Financial Remedies Practice 2023/24

The authors are presently writing the 2023/24 edition, which is expected to be published by Class Publishing in April 2023. They have decided that the section of the Commentary on Part 27 concerning the applicability of the open justice principle to financial remedy proceedings (presently at §§27.89–27.

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

Privacy and Transparency in the Financial Remedies Court

Privacy and Transparency in the Financial Remedies Court

Anyone who has had the benefit and privilege of listening to Mostyn J speak in an extra-judicial capacity will have been afforded a peek into the extraordinary breadth of knowledge and learning of one of England’s most experienced family judges. The range of references that pepper his deliveries – cultural,

Some Sunlight Seeps In

Some Sunlight Seeps In

In relation to transparency in the Financial Remedies Court (FRC) there are further signs that the tectonic plates are shifting.[[1]] BT v CU In November 2021, Mostyn J set the cat among the pigeons with his judgments in BT v CU [2021] EWFC 87, [2022] 1 WLR 1349, [100]