Nothing quite like your club appointing a manager who is younger than you to make you start feeling old

indexation-calculator.iflg.uk.com

Really pleased we’ve been able to launch this today. A free tool designed to help people calculate annual changes to family maintenance orders. Please share with anyone you think may find it helpful @iflguk.bsky.social

Two LSPO judgments on whether notional deductions should be applied to historic costs.

In HA v EN Richard Todd KC followed the approach started by Cobb J and applied a 30% discount.

In SM v BA Nicholas Allen KC took the view it wasn’t appropriate to make such a discount as a matter of principle.

Two more reports by Fair Shares project on domestic abuse when resolving finances on divorce and regional disparities in spousal maintenance. I was struck by this finding on impact of domestic abuse on females post divorce. Such important work

www.nuffieldfoundation.org/project/fair...

I really should get out more but does anyone happen to know the rationale for these public service pension schemes (PM, Lord Chancellor and Speaker) being exempt from pension sharing on divorce?

Final report of the Duxbury Working Party just published in the @frjournal.bsky.social. Main recommendations include the introduction of an allowance for management charges and a move from whole-of-life to term provision.

Winter edition of @frjournal.bsky.social just released. Includes guide to case management in financial remedy proceedings by @familybrief.bsky.social, competing views on NCDR, and @dmhodson.bsky.social on delaying divorce because of financial prejudice

financialremediesjournal.com/content/fina...

Pleasure to speak alongside Sofia Thomas, Amanda Trigg and Tim Amos KC on international divorces and Part III claims for TL4 at the the HNW Divorce Litigation – 4th Annual Flagship Conference

Just announced at TL4 HNW Divorce conference that Standish being heard by Supreme Court on 30 April 2025.

www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

Judgment of HHJ Hess dealing with valuation, categorisation and treatment of a business on divorce. On facts followed Jones approach to springboard. Also first reported decision (of which I’m aware) to refer to the provisional report of the Duxbury Working Party.

It's not too late to join us at the HNW Divorce Litigation - 4th Annual Flagship Conference on 21st November in London where Sofia Thomas, Amanda S. Trigg, Tim Amos KC and I will be talking about international divorces and Part III.

lnkd.in/e3M9FnUH

This is going to be interesting… 👀

www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/form...

Latest instalment in A v M, this time H’s app to strike out W’s app to set aside Mostyn J’s final order. It follows a judgment earlier this year regarding the correct construction of Mostyn J’s order regarding W’s right to share in H’s carried interest.

Provisional report of the Duxbury Working Party just released. Comments invited by 1 November.

financialremediesjournal.com/content/repo...