14 February 2025
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.RELATED ARTICLES
