Finance
Supreme Court landmark win to change discrimination against marital status. Today saw the landmark victory for Denise Brewster who won...
It will often be the case that a family who has experienced the suspicious death, injury or other abuse of...
One of the points I am always very keen to stress when meeting people for initial advice is that they...
Rachel Nicholl highlights the courts’ approach when dealing with financial conduct and litigation conduct. This article was first published in the...
The divorce process has long finalised. The negotiations, either outside or inside Court have finalised and, whether by agreement or...
One of the recent trends from the senior Courts in this jurisdiction has been to curtail and/or remove the (arguably somewhat legally unorthodox) practices that have developed over time in family law in order to deal with a variety of different problems which regularly occur in family proceedings - including that of financial disclosure. In particular, the cases of Imerman and Prest, made it plain that the family courts need to play by the ‘same rules’ as their civil counterparts.
At the start of the year, the Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal against the variation of an order made by consent and held that it was an order for payment of a lump sum in instalments which could be varied.
