Money, money, money, must be funny, in an [anonymised beneficiary’s] world: protecting child beneficiaries in variation of trust cases

by Paul M | Jun 1, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

A typical plot development in old novels is the sudden discovery of unexpected wealth, usually in the form of an inheritance, or the discovery of a long lost will or hidden relationship to a wealthy benefactor.   That is sometimes what it...

Legal blogging by consent

by Lucy R | May 30, 2019 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging

On 10 May I attended the Family Court to see if I could attend a hearing under the Legal Blogging Pilot before heading off to collecting judgment in one of my cases at noon. I wasn’t sure that this would be very productive because of the fact I could only fit in a...

Judge agrees learning disabled man can make his own choice about marriage and should be told about his finances

by Abigail Bond | May 24, 2019 | Cases, Explanation

This is a first post from Abigail Bond, one of our new contributors. Abigail tweets as @AbigailBond1. In May this year Mr Justice Francis handed down a carefully anonymised judgment in a case concerning PBM, a man in his mid-twenties who had an acquired brain injury...

Adele: Privacy, Litigation and Arbitration

by Guest Post | May 9, 2019 | Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

This is a guest post by Alex Chandler. Alex is a barrister specialising in financial remedy claims on divorce. He practises at 1 King’s Bench Walk, Temple, and also sits as a part-time judge, arbitrator and private FDR judge. His reported cases include a recent...

The Troubling case of Justyna

by reporting watch team | May 7, 2019 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

This is a guest post from Valerie Eliot Smith. Valerie is a non-practising barrister and Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London. She has lived with the illness myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) since 1981. When health...

Alienating behaviours and appealing about an expert report

by reporting watch team | Apr 30, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

This post is about a High Court case called Re MFS (Appeal: Transfer of Primary Care) [2019] EWHC 768 (Fam), a judgment delivered in March by Mr Justice Williams. We wrote this post some weeks ago, but the judgment was removed from BAILII before we published, so we...