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05 September 2014 / Chris Fairhurst
Issue: 7620 / Categories: Features
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Book review: Detection and Preservation of Assets in Financial Remedy Claims

“This book is as clear & concise as the subject matter allows & follows through initial explanation of general principles & orders”

Author: Nigel Dyer QC & Juliet Chapman
Publisher: LexisNexis
ISBN: 9781405774048
Price: £110.00

There’s nothing quite like an urgent financial application to cause quiet panic and take a family lawyer outside their comfort zone. A frequent response to the unknowing client might be “we’ll look into this for you” before a rush to the resource books begins or for those individuals with a little more ready income available there is always the option of counsel’s opinion.

For a family lawyer who would like to at least want to have an idea of the application they are about to commence upon for the trusting client, there’s nothing like a bit of your own research.

And so I found myself in this very situation, facing the prospect of bringing a financial injunction within divorce proceedings against a party who not

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