Family Articles

Michael George provides a briefing note on G v T [2020] EWHC 1613 in which he explores the topic of business valuations and provides an up-to-date approach to run off.

Luke Nelson provides an overview of the procedural elements of starting a standalone TOLATA claim together with some useful practical advice for this stage.

Family law specialist Jennifer Kotilaine considers the recent case of Re M [2021] (Special Guardianship Order: Leave to apply to discharge) EWCA Civ 442, in which she is acting, and the clarification it brings to the test for permission to apply to discharge SGOs.

3PB Family barrister Ségolène Lapeyre and Civil law barrister Hugh-Guy Lorriman have co-authored an article for Rayden Solicitors’ Anglo-French blog on the recognition of French PACS under the amended Civil Partnership Act 2004.

Ségolène Lapeyre et Hugh-Guy Lorriman ont co-écrit un article pour le blog anglo-français du cabinet d'avocats Rayden sur la reconnaissance du PACS français en vertu de la loi modifiée de 2004 sur le partenariat civil.

Aimee Fox on 'Covert recordings in family proceedings’.

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.