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JP v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and LH [2025] UKUT 162

Judgment date: 07 March 2025 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukut/aac/2025/162 Upper Tribunal Judge Citron. Application for a variation to a child support maintenance calculation under regs 69 or 69A of the Child Support Maintenance Calculation Regulations 2012. Interpretation of s 8(6) CSA 1991. Error of

Financial Remedy Reform – ‘Fairness’ – Do Divorcing Parties Get Any Say – Time for Some Soul Searching for Family Law Professionals

Financial Remedy Reform – ‘Fairness’ – Do Divorcing Parties Get Any Say – Time for Some Soul Searching for Family Law Professionals

The Law Commission Scoping Report The Law Commission’s 373-page scoping report on Financial Remedies on Divorce and Dissolution, which was published just before Christmas 2024, stated categorically (emboldened emphasis): ‘1.58 In our view, the current law relating to financial remedies on divorce and dissolution does not, to use

M v B [2025] EWFC 182

Judgment date: 25 June 2025 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2025/182 Sir Jonathan Cohen (sitting as a judge of the High Court). Financial remedy proceedings considering the court’s power to strike out applications under FPR 4.4, having regard to the effect of FPR 9.9A. The

Financial Remedies Journal – 2025 Issue 2 | Summer

Financial Remedies Journal – 2025 Issue 2 | Summer

2025 - Issue 2 - Summer

Chair’s Column TEST

Chair’s Column TEST

Transparency The transparency debate – in the context of practices on anonymisation and rubrics – receives another punchy analysis from Sir Nicholas Mostyn in this issue of the journal in his article ‘Re-multiplied Propagation’. The difficulty here is that most of the judgments identified in his article (at High Court Judge level

Class Legal Financial Remedies Awards 2025

Financial Remedies Conference, 16 October 2025 Ten years ago, Class Legal staged its inaugural financial remedies conference, the At A Glance Conference. Retitled this year as the Financial Remedies Conference, it remains the finest such conference in the calendar. This year’s, to be held on 16 October 2025 at

Foreign Property Regimes and English Matrimonial Finance: Parity or Particularity?

Foreign Property Regimes and English Matrimonial Finance: Parity or Particularity?

Introduction Since the landmark decision in Radmacher v Granatino [2010] UKSC 42, [2011] 1 AC 534, English law has recognised the legitimacy of pre-nuptial agreements. As family life becomes increasingly international, the courts regularly encounter a wide variety of agreements, including those signed abroad. The most common form of foreign