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Mapping out Wanton Behaviour: MAP v MFP
September 11, 2015
The Court of Appeal in Vaughan v Vaughan [2007] EWCA Civ 1085, [2008] 1 FLR 1108, established the current test for reattribution within a divorce financial remedy claim where there has been a wanton dissipation of resources.
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Jordans Publishing Ltd £95.00 Hardback
September 11, 2015
Authors/Editors: John Eames, Ashley Murray, District Judge Helen Wood, Mark Harrop, Angharad Palin, David Salter
The only work on the subject to provide commentary, checklists, procedural guides and precedents on all aspects of the law in connection with the rights and entitlement of cohabiting couples
Family Flyer Issue 54
September 11, 2015
Several weeks ago I gave a talk on this subject to Resolution in Liverpool and, accordingly, as allegations of extravagant and reckless spending by one or the other of divorcing parties are regrettably almost the default position in most cases, I have decided to summarise some of my presentation in this Flyer.
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Family Flyer Issue 53
April 30, 2015
Ashley Murray Limited
I am proud to announce that Ashley Murray Limited trading as Ashley Murray Chambers has now been approved by the Bar Standard Board and the Bar Indemnity Fund to provide family finance advocacy, litigation, and expert legal advice services as an entity.
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Ashley Murray Limited
April 30, 2015
From the 28th April 2015, Ashley Murray Chambers has become the first family barrister practice in England and Wales to be registered with the Bar Standards Board and the Bar Indemnity Fund as Ashley Murray Limited.
Ashley Murray Limited trading as Ashley Murray Chambers is an entity that provides family finance advocacy, litigation, and expert legal advice services.
Please see Flyer 53 for more details.
Family Flyer Issue 52
April 28, 2015
Sharing Non Matrimonial Assets ‘as rare as a White Leopard’: JL v SL (No.2) [2015] EWHC 360 (Fam). Mostyn J.
Practitioners will find a helpful analysis in this latest judgment of Mr Justice Mostyn which again re-states and attempts to further clarify the approach surrounding pre and post accrued value in divorce disputes.
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Resolution AGM 2015
March 12, 2015
Ashley is the guest speaker at the forthcoming Resolution AGM in April 2015.
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Family Flyer Issue 51
March 12, 2015
The Principles relating to Spousal Maintenance Provision: SS v NS [2014] EWHC 4183 (Fam)
It must have been with a sinking heart that the Wife’s counsel in this case heard Mostyn J start off his judgement with the comment that in writing her section 25 narrative statement, the Wife had had her pen ‘dipped in vitriol’.
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Excessive costs and J v J: a practitioner response (£)
January 19, 2015
The recent judgment of Mr Justice Mostyn in the North West of England case J v J [2014] EWHC 3654 (Fam) raises some important issues for the family legal profession.
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Family Flyer Issue 50
December 14, 2014
A Criticism Too Far – J v J [2014] EWHC 3654
The recent Judgement of Mostyn J in the North West case of J v J [2014] raises some very important issues for the Profession. Click here to read more.