• Important amendments to FPR Parts 3 and 28, expanding the court’s powers to promote N-CDR, removing the mediator’s MIAM exemption and making a failure, without good reason, to attend a MIAM or N-CDR litigation conduct
• Recent leading case law on N-CDR: Churchill v Merthyr Tydfil BC and Re X
• New Family Court Listing Guidance (January 2024)
• Potanina v Potanin (MFPA 1984, Part 3)
• Expansion of the Commentary on Part 22 dealing with the giving of remote evidence from overseas.

Sir Nicholas Mostyn was a barrister for 30 years specialising in “big money” cases, appearing in the foundational decisions of White, Miller and Granatino v Radmacher. He became a High Court judge in 2010 and sat in the Family Division, where he gave many judgments of major importance in the financial remedy field.

Lewis Marks KC is a barrister at QEB Chambers. He practises in family law, in particular in the sphere of "big money ancillary relief" (financial provision following divorce), and has appeared in many of the leading cases. He drafted the FLBA's response to the European Commission's Green Paper ("Rome III") on the applicable law and jurisdiction on international divorce matters.

Richard Sear KC practises in all areas of private family law and tends to be instructed in complex financial cases and jurisdiction disputes, both with and against leading counsel. He was shortlisted in 2014 for the award of Chambers and Partners family law junior barrister of the year.

Gavin Smith is a family law barrister at 1 Hare Court. He specialises in financial disputes resulting from all forms of relationship breakdown, especially those with an international dimension.

Phillip Blatchly is consistently ranked as a leading matrimonial finance junior by both of the legal directories, Chambers and Partners and The Legal 500. He is described as being “exceptional”, “charming yet ferocious”, able to “change his line of attack very easily” whilst also “being willing to take a judge on”. He is said to have “a brain like a calculator” and is a “skilled advocate with an impressive technical grasp of the law”.

Joshua Viney is a Family Law Barrister at 1 Hare Court.

Henrietta Boyle is a family law barrister at 1 Hare Court, specialising in financial remedy cases. She has had over 50 articles and case summaries published across various family law platforms. Henrietta has also worked as a Judicial Assistant in the Family Division of the High Court.

Henry Pritchard is a family law barrister at 1 Hare Court, specialising in financial remedy cases.