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Family Flyer 62
January 17, 2017
Pre-Nuptials – Quality, Clarity, Practice and Cost
It is suggested that there should be some concern over the direction pre-nuptial work in practice is taking, the widely differing quality of drafting experience and the ever rising costs being faced by the client in the process.
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Family Flyer 61
January 17, 2017
As family lawyers we are all familiar with the anxieties of clients over mounting costs in a divorce financial claim. The days when a client expected to write a blank cheque for the privilege of their legal advisor to represent them have long gone – and frankly – good riddance.
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Family Flyer 60
January 17, 2017
A summary of ‘Guidance on Financial Needs on Divorce’ (June 2016) published by the Family Justice Council Financial Needs Working Group.
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Family Flyer 59
January 17, 2017
The Debate on Evidential Burden in Judgment Summons Hearings
In Flyer 55 Judgment Summons – An Inadequate Remedy and a Defaulter’s Charter – analysis of Prest v Prest [2015] EWCA 714. I set out the analusis of the Court of Appeal’s decision (McFarlane LJ) in the case of Prest v Prest [2016] 1 FLR 773 dealing with in particular, the required procedure to be followed upon a judgment summons committal hearing.
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Family Flyer 58
January 17, 2017
An analysis if W V H (No 2)(Contempt, contents of application notice) [2015] EWHC 2436 (Fam)
Whilst the committal hearing is also reported, it is the report, as above, dealing with Parker J’s consideration of the procedural requirements of committal applications and the powers of the court to remedy defects, which is of the most interest to practitioners.
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Family Flyer Issue 57
December 20, 2015
Over recent weeks I have been requested on a number of occasions to attempt to summarise the principles to be derived from the conjoined appeal decisions of the Supreme Court in Sharland and Gohil. Accordingly, I have tabulated such a summary in the hope it will be of assistance generally.
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Family Flyer Issue 56
December 6, 2015
Wicks v Wicks [1998] 1 FLR 470 and its determination that there was no interim power of asset sale for divorcing parties pending a final hearing has been a source of injustice, mainly for wives, for almost two decades.
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Family Flyer Issue 55
December 6, 2015
Since the decision of Mubarak [2001] 1 FLR 698, the inadequacies of the Judgment Summons route to enforcement of a ‘money’ order has been well known to the Profession. The Judgment Summons process at that time made no reference to the criminal standard of proof, required individuals to incriminate themselves, placed the burden of proof on the person facing committal and confused the separate approaches required when undertaking a means enquiry and committal proceedings.
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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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