Practice And Procedure: Collision course

4 King’s Bench Walk (Chambers of Timothy Raggatt QC) | Family Law Journal | July/August 2016 #158
Chris Bryden and Kate Jones compare and contrast the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 and the Family Procedure Rules 2010 on key areas of overlap ‘Questions have arisen regarding the exposure to media reporting of trustees who are joined to financial remedy proceedings, or who disclose information that is likely to be disclosed in family proceedings, …

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Trusts And Divorce: Family divided

5 Stone Buildings | Trusts and Estates Law & Tax Journal | May 2015 #166
Divorce case Arif v Anwar and Rehan [2015] raises interesting points on beneficial ownership and also costs, as Penelope Reed QC and Nicholas Fairbank report ‘There are no winners when the overall assets are reduced so significantly by the legal costs that adequate provision for the parties is circumscribed.’ In Sofia Arif v Arif Anwar, …

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Costs: No order or a clean sheet?

Bennett Griffin | Family Law Journal | November 2013 #131
Richard Adams sets out a reminder of the courts’ approach to costs orders in family proceedings ‘The approach of the court in making costs orders will depend on the exact nature of the proceedings, although the types of costs orders available remain the same.’ The recent Court of Appeal decision in Solomon v Solomon [2013] …

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