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Book review: Financial Remedies Handbook 2025, 15th Edition

12 December 2025 / Nicky Hunter
Issue: 8143 / Categories: Features , Family , Divorce
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“The Handbook is an indispensable guide for all financial remedy practitioners working at all levels”

  • Author: District Judge Sophie Harrison
  • Publisher: Jordan Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781474333672
  • RRP: £228

Recently released in its 15th edition, the Financial Remedies Handbook, authored for the first time solely by District Judge Sophie Harrison following the retirement of Roger Bird, is an indispensable guide for all financial remedy practitioners working at all levels. As the publishers Jordan Publishing highlight, this revised edition provides a ‘complete review of the legal principles and the s 25 Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 factor and how they apply in practice, and a full overview of the powers of the court to make orders on divorce and dissolution’.

Comprehensive coverage

I was fortunate to be reviewing this book during a couple of weeks when I was preparing for hearings and working on some knotty financial remedy issues. The comprehensive list of contents at the beginning of the book made it quick and easy to

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