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Potential arguments can be avoided and acrimonious atmospheres dissolved by taking the precaution of making a post-nuptial or pre-nuptial agreement. Should couples choose to take this step, what must their legal adviser bear in mind, what are the necessary actions, and how have the courts treated such agreements?

Nuptial agreements: Sarah Scriven runs through the key points to consider now, to avoid disputes later

Recent years have shown how quickly fortunes can change: Stephen Gerlis makes the case for regular reviews of maintenance payments in private family law

Wyatt v Vince illustrates the growing trend towards openness of family proceedings, says Sarah Hughes

Anna Heenan examines the implications of the latest in a long line of inherited assets cases

Margaret Hatwood continues her examination of the increasing trend of parties asking for consent orders to be set aside

In a special NLJ two-part series Margaret Hatwood discusses the increasing trend of parties asking for consent orders to be set aside

Prest v Prest overturns 30 years of family case law, says Craig Rose

Ed Heaton & Anna Heenan consider the Law Commission’s consultation on matrimonial property, needs & agreements

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CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

Blake Morgan managing partner appointed chair of CBI South-East Council

Birketts—Phillippa O’Neill

Commercial dispute resolution team welcomes partner in Cambridge

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Firm strengthens international funds capability with senior hire

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NLJ this week: Motor finance faces £11bn reckoning

The proposed £11bn redress scheme following the Supreme Court’s motor finance rulings is analysed in this week’s NLJ by Fred Philpott of Gough Square Chambers

NLJ this week: Gold on Awaab’s Law & digital divorce

In this week's issue, Stephen Gold, NLJ columnist and former district judge, surveys another eclectic fortnight in procedure. With humour and humanity, he reminds readers that beneath the procedural dust, the law still changes lives

NLJ this week: AI in the dock—courts need literacy, not fear

Generative AI isn’t the villain of the courtroom—it’s the misunderstanding of it that’s dangerous, argues Dr Alan Ma of Birmingham City University and the Birmingham Law Society in this week's NLJ

NLJ this week: Landlords lose their upward climb

James Naylor of Naylor Solicitors dissects the government’s plan to outlaw upward-only rent review (UORR) clauses in new commercial leases under Schedule 31 of the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, in this week's NLJ. The reform, he explains, marks a seismic shift in landlord-tenant power dynamics: rents will no longer rise inexorably, and tenants gain statutory caps and procedural rights

NLJ this week: Privy Council undresses the ‘shareholder rule’

Writing in NLJ this week, James Harrison and Jenna Coad of Penningtons Manches Cooper chart the Privy Council’s demolition of the long-standing ‘shareholder rule’ in Jardine Strategic v Oasis Investments

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Ancillary relief

MOVERS & SHAKERS

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

Birketts—Phillippa O’Neill

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin