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NLJ this week: Family affairs, shares, finance & Duxbury

14 February 2025
Issue: 8104 / Categories: Legal News , Family , Divorce , ADR
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What happened in family law in the last quarter of 2024? A lot, as demonstrated by Ellie Hampson-Jones, senior associate, and Carla Ditz, knowledge development lawyer at Stewarts, authors of NLJ’s family law brief.

Hampson-Jones and Ditz analyse the findings of the first Family Court Annual Report, setting out in detail two significant developments therein. They consider the Law Commission’s scoping report on the laws governing finances on divorce and the ending of a civil partnership.

They look into the report of a working party on the Duxbury tables—used for the calculation of lump sum payments in financial remedy cases—noting ‘the underlying assumptions on which the calculation is based have been subject to some criticism.

‘In particular, case law in relation to the duration of periodical payments on divorce has developed significantly since the Duxbury tables were first established some four decades ago’. Hampson-Jones and Ditz also examine the drafting and construction ‘cautionary tale’ of a recent case on company interests. 
Issue: 8104 / Categories: Legal News , Family , Divorce , ADR
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Firm strengthens leveraged finance team with London partner hire

Mourant—Stephen Alexander

Mourant—Stephen Alexander

Jersey litigation lead appointed to global STEP Council

mfg Solicitors—nine trainees

mfg Solicitors—nine trainees

Firm invests in future talent with new training cohort

NEWS
The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, in this week's NLJ
Small law firms want to embrace technology but feel lost in a maze of jargon, costs and compliance fears, writes Aisling O’Connell of the Solicitors Regulation Authority in this week's NLJ
Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre makes the case for ‘General Practice Pro Bono’—using core legal skills to deliver life-changing support, without the need for niche expertise—in this week's NLJ
Charlie Mercer and Astrid Gillam of Stewarts crunch the numbers on civil fraud claims in the English courts, in this week's NLJ. New data shows civil fraud claims rising steadily since 2014, with the King’s Bench Division overtaking the Commercial Court as the forum of choice for lower-value disputes
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