Family Articles

Practice Direction 27A and its application to financial proceedings

Specialist family law barrister Tonia Clark reviews Practice Direction 27A (PD27A) which was published just yesterday, 25th February 2021.

Rachael Goodall analyses Finch v Baker [2021] EWCA Civ 72 in which the Court of Appeal refused a wife’s appeal against the circuit judge’s decision not to permit further evidence from the pension expert following his draft judgment.

This analysis was first published on Lexis®PSL on 29 January 2021.

Over 10 years on from Radmacher v Granantino, with pre-nuptial agreements still not guaranteed to be upheld in court, Nicola Frost offers her best recipe to make them binding.

Rachael Goodall analyses IC v RC [2020] EWHC 2997 (Fam), [2020] All ER (D) 74 (Nov). In this case the court considered the circumstances in which an error or omission after the order has been drawn may be corrected pursuant to the ‘slip rule’ (per Family Procedure Rules 2010 (FPR 2010), SI 2010/2955, 29.16) in circumstances where the husband argued that the order had ceased to have effect.

This analysis was first published on Lexis®PSL on 18 November 2020.

3PB’s specialist family law barrister and Chair of the Western Circuit Women’s Forum (WCWF) Rachael Goodall sets out the WCWF’s proposals to mitigate the threat of significant and disproportionate attrition of women from the Bar due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Published in Counsel magazine October 2020 edition.

Relocation dos and don'ts
Elisabeth Hudson reviews the dos and don'ts of children relocation.

Deferral of Capital Claims in Times of Economic Uncertainty
As the pandemic inflicts significant damage on our society and economic activity, causing significant difficulties in valuing assets, Michael George examines the temptation of deferring capital claims.

In this article for the Family Law Journal, Aimee Fox outlines additional needs for children in private law and financial remedy proceedings.

3PB's specialist family law barrister Amy Beddis provides notes on interveners in financial remedy proceedings.

3PB's specialist family law barrister James Legg provides notes on interveners in financial remedy proceedings.

3PB's Vanessa Meachin QC and James Evans of Our Family Wizard produce a guide for family law professionals.

3PB's family law barrister Antonida Kocharova provides a case law update.