by Lucy R | May 31, 2022 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
A lot has been written of late about the privacy (or otherwise) of family money cases, and all of it by men with big brains and a lot of words. As someone who hasn’t conducted a money case for some years (not great with numbers, me), I would not dare to offer any view...
by Lucy R | May 2, 2022 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
This post isn’t going to try and answer the question we’ve posed in the title (sorry) – but it is intended to try and briefly summarise some of what has been happening lately around the topic of family court transparency in financial remedies cases,...
by Guest Post | May 2, 2022 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious, Transparency News
This is a guest post by Sir James Munby, former President of the Family Division[1]. In relation to transparency in the Financial Remedies Court there are further signs that the tectonic plates are shifting. BT v CU In November 2021 Mostyn J set the cat among the...
by Guest Post | Apr 20, 2022 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
This is a guest post from Iain Large. Iain is a barrister at St John’s Chambers and tweets as @ijmlarge. In this article Iain looks at two recent lower-value judgments in financial remedies cases on divorce, examples of the sorts of decisions taken on a daily...
by Lucy R | Apr 14, 2022 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Transparency News
The case of Xanthopoulos v Rakshina [2022] EWFC 30 has hit the headlines because of the eye watering legal costs, and the excoriating judicial criticism of the parties for running them up. But Xanthopoulos is not only interesting because of its extraordinary financial...
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