Unit Chambers is delighted to announce that Claire Jones will be joining the team as a Consultant Barrister on 30th August 2022. Claire is a well-respected and highly sought-after Barrister with over 21 years of experience across the Northern and Wales circuits. She was called to the Bar in 1999. Initially with a 7-year mixed practice of […]
Read moreIn recent times there haven’t been many family decisions handed down from the Supreme Court. However, last month we had the decision of Re H-W (Children). That decision has been applied in two recent Court of Appeal decisions – one of which was a successful appeal from our local court. The recent decisions about proportionality […]
Read moreIt is trite law that the usual position in Financial Remedy proceedings that each party shall bear their own costs, but that the court may make an award which provides for one party’s costs to be met by the other as part of a needs based award, or where litigation conduct is relevant to depart […]
Read moreThis decision follows not long after the case of Xanthopoulos v Rakshina [2022] EWFC 30, where Mr Justice Mostyn determined that in the absence of a specific order preventing publication of information in financial remedy proceedings, the status quo should be maintained. In this case, H made an application for a Reporting Restriction Order (RRO) prior […]
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