The Financial Remedies Journal is a brand new termly law journal, published by Class Legal and written and edited by an exceptional Editorial Board. HHJ Edward Hess acts as Chair of the Editorial Board and Rhys Taylor acts both as Vice-Chair of the Editorial Board and Journal Editor.
The mission of the journal is to promote serious and high-level debate and thought about the workings of the world of financial remedies, both substantively and procedurally and inside and outside of court.
The digital edition of the Journal is free. Print editions carry a small fee to cover print, postage and packaging.
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Publication dates
2023 Issues
Spring - March 2023 -
Summer - July 2023 -
Autumn - November 2023 -
Spring - April 2022 - Download Issue 1 (PDF) here
Summer - July 2022 - Download Issue 2 (PDF) here
Autumn - November 2022 - Download Issue 3 (PDF) here
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At last a journal has been launched to fill what seems to me to be a gross and obvious gap in the market. It has always struck me how our existing family law journals tend to treat financial remedies law and practice as the poor relation. Developments in public and private law children work, and in international children work, always seem to be given priority, bestowing on the money cases a Cinderella status. This is both understandable and at the same time surprising.
In my opinion, this is a wonderful initiative. Class Publishing has assembled an editorial team of the highest intellectual quality. They will ensure that the FRJ becomes the periodical of choice for financial remedy practitioners. I wish the project well. No doubt I will suffer a certain amount of apprehension immediately before each issue hits the stands, but that is as it should be.
Issue 1, the Spring Edition is due to be published in March 2023.
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What's in Issue 1?
- Chair’s Column
HHJ Edward Hess - Omissions, Ambiguities and Deficiencies – Seeking Clarification of a Judge’s Reasoning
Nicholas Allen KC - An Unwelcome Guest and a ‘lively controversy’ – Guest v Guest on the Essential Aim of Proprietary Estoppel
Charlotte John - Looking Back at Duxbury 30 Years On
Michael Allum, Megan Jenkins and Amy Gilbert - Pensions on Divorce – Lifetime Allowance Tax Issues
George Mathieson and Peter Turnbull - Cryptocurrency and the Family Courts – Some International Experiences
Professor David Hodson OBE KC(Hons) MCIArb - Clarke v Clarke – A Brave New (Valuation) World
Thomas Rodwell - Depletion of Business Profits and Assets During Separation and Divorce Proceedings – Would it Have Happened Anyway?
Hollie Edwards-Davies
+ more!
Issue 1 - Spring Edition
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We are fortunate to have attracted for this issue some really excellent, thought-provoking, informative and substantial contributions from some of the most influential players in the field of financial remedies. From the judiciary we have pieces from three leading figures in this field - Sir James Munby, Sir Paul Coleridge and Mr Justice Nicholas Mostyn. Additionally, there are some thought provoking papers on deferred remuneration, valuation, tax, pension offsetting, overseas divorce claims and no fault divorce.
What's in Issue 1?
- The Origins of the Financial Remedies Court – an insider’s view
Sir James Munby - Private Alternative Dispute Resolution (PADR)- A still much under-used process.
Sir Paul Coleridge - The Galbraith Tables: A new chapter for pension offsetting on divorce?
Jonathan Galbraith, Christopher Goodwin & Rhys Taylor - Part III: Reflections on the 40th anniversary of the Law Commission’s Recommendations
Michael Allum - Non-matrimonial Property – Valuing the Family Business
Nicholas Allen QC - Financial Remedies & Criminal Confiscation
Christian Jowett - Whose fault is it anyway? Will the introduction of “no fault” divorce herald greater reliance on conduct in financial remedy proceedings?
Joanne Edwards & Polly Calver - BT v CU [2021] EWFC 87: Barder, Thwaite, drafting lump sums and anonymisation
Alexander Chandler - A beginner’s guide to deferred compensation (and other forms of remuneration)
Joe Rainer & Thomas Rodwell
+ more!
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Issue 2 - Summer Edition
- What's in Issue 2?
1. Introduction
HHJ Edward Hess
2. The Financial Remedies Court: The Road Ahead
Mr Justice Peel
3. Some Sunlight Seeps In
Sir James Munby
4. Privacy and Transparency in the Financial Remedies Court
Christopher Wagstaffe QC
5. The Central Place of the Family Home in Financial Remedy Applications
Tom Haggie and Fiona Stewart
6. Both Sides Now: DN v UD
Laura Moys and Katherine Kelsey
7. Property Ownership Structures in Schedule 1 Cases
Jemma Pollock, Rebecca Fisher and Pieter Boodt
8. Schedule 1 Remedies for the Older Child
Gwynfor Evans
9. Domestic Abuse in Financial Remedy Cases
Judith Crisp, Rosemary Hunter and Emma Hitchings - + more!
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Issue 3 - Winter Edition
What's in Issue 3?
- Chair’s Column
HHJ Edward Hess - PAG2: The Continuing Work of the Pension Advisory Group
The Hon. Mr Justice Francis and HHJ Edward Hess - ‘For reasons which are not fanciful’ – Daniels v Walker Applications in Financial Remedy Cases
Nicholas Allen KC - Someone! Do Something About Costs! The Single Lawyer Solution
Harry Gates and Samantha Woodham - The Scandal of Costs in Financial Remedy Proceedings in English Family Law
Professor David Hodson KC (Hon) - Predatory Marriage – The Great Inheritance Scam?
Charlotte John - Pound for Pound Orders: Are they Legal?
Simon Calhaem - Cryptoassets – Still an Enigma?
Ben Fearnley - Waking Up and Smelling the Coffee – International Tax Considerations in Financial Remedy Applications
Sarah Lucy Cooper and Dilpreet K Dhanoa
+ more!
An annual subscription to receive print copies of the Financial Remedies Journal is now available.
For only £36, you will receive 3 print copy issues of the Financial Remedies Journal throughout the year. There is still the option to pre-order individual hard copies of issues but this annual subscription will ensure that you never miss out on an issue! If you would like to purchase an annual subscription, please select the drop-down on the right-hand side.
The digital edition of the Journal is free and available at www.financialremediesjournal.com. Print editions carry a small fee to cover print, postage, and packaging.
At the end of the subscription, we will contact you to enquire as to whether you would like to continue for another year.
The Financial Remedies Journal website is the dedicated website for everything related to financial remedies.
- The journal articles are available online on the FRJ website, but the website also benefits from a number of other features.
- Instant and right up-to-date hyperlink access to a wide range of judgments in the field produced by our Case Editor, Polly Morgan and her team. Unlike many databases this includes judgments by judges lower than High Court level, reflecting the President’s 10% Transparency ambition and the fact that the judgments by High Court judges and above in this area tend to deal only with very big money cases, which are not necessarily typical of the daily bread and butter of family court life.
- Immediate hyperlink access in the FRC corner to all FRC relevant guidance (national and local) as well as to the most recent version of the Standard Family Orders.
- There is a topical FRJ blog lead by our Blog Editor Emily Ward and her team. If you have something to say about financial remedies, please do get in touch and get it off your chest on the blog.
- The FRJ has also launched an innovative facility to allow for the creation of a private FDR directory under the directions of DJ Nicola Shaw. It is hoped that if interested practitioners post their details on the directory, there will develop a resource which the profession can use as a “go to” tool when compiling pFDR tribunal shortlists. Please do consider posting your credentials on the site so that a comprehensive and diverse pFDR directory can evolve.
Visit www.financialremediesjournal.com
Editors
His Honour Judge Edward Hess
Rhys Taylor
DJ Deborah Dinan-Hayward
Nicholas Allen KC
Joanne Edwards
Sofia Thomas
Alexander Chandler KC
Joseph Rainer
Roger Isaacs
Emma Hitchings
Michael Allum
