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 Pullman London St Pancras, promises to be possibly the best yet with a stellar array of contributors.[i] There are still some tickets left. Snap them up now[ii] to avoid being left out of what will surely be the highlight of the financial remedies year.

Class Legal continues to publish At A Glance, the 34th edition of which is about to hit the stands; Financial Remedies Practice now in its 14th edition; the Dictionary of Financial Remedies and the Dictionary of TLATA and Inheritance Act Claims; and the Financial Remedies Journal (FRJ). Collectively these works are the essential vade mecums of every busy financial remedies practitioner. Their width and depth reinforce the specialist nature of financial remedy practice.

Class Legal and I believe that peer-based recognition continues to be more readily bestowed on family lawyers engaged in public and private children law, and that financial specialism continues to suffer from Cinderella status within the family law sphere. Indeed, it is not just us who believe this; we have received pleas from practitioners urging us to initiate some form of formal recognition of money practitioners.

In response, and at an exciting time for money practitioners, Class Legal have instituted their Financial Remedies Awards, the winners of which will be announced, and the awards presented, at the Financial Remedies Conference on 16 October 2025.

These will be the only awards in the entire legal calendar exclusively focused on financial remedies practitioners and their work.

There will be six awards in total:

•          Financial Remedies Young Solicitor of the Year

•          Financial Remedies Solicitor of the Year

•          Financial Remedies Young Barrister of the Year

•          Financial Remedies Barrister of the Year

•          Financial Remedies Chambers of the Year

•          Financial Remedies Firm of the Year

The panel of judges will comprise me, Rhys Taylor of The 36 Group and Sarah Hoskinson of Burges Salmon. In September 2025 they will announce a short-list of four candidates for each award.

The winners of the awards will be announced at a ceremony following the conference over drinks and canapes at Pullman London St Pancras on 16 October 2025. There will be no requirement, in contrast to other award ceremonies, for short-listed candidates to purchase an expensive dinner for a full table of guests, although tickets will be available separately for those not already attending the conference.

I believe that this initiative will redress the deficit of recognition of financial remedy practitioners and will honour its rainmakers and future stars.

Despite this exciting development I have been slightly disappointed by the limited number of nominations thus far received. So I have decided to make a plea to the financial remedies world to look around and ask themselves who are the rainmakers and future stars who should be honoured? Now is the time for our community in the family law universe to gain maximum recognition by this process.

So please do go to https://classlegal.com/pages/financial-remedies-awards-2025 and nominate your favoured practitioners.

Thank you,

Nicholas Mostyn