Family Law Journal June's financial remedies coverage

In addition to The Brief, the Financial Remedies Focus section of June Family Law has articles on:

• The FRC Efficiency Statement – ‘an Update from the Trenches’
  It’s been three months since the FRC Efficiency Statement (Statement on the Efficient Conduct of Financial Remedy Hearings Proceeding in the Financial Remedies Court below High Court Judge Level) was released. How has the profession adapted to this change? Have there been any growing pains?

• Divorce financial settlements and damages from injury and medical claims

  What part of a compensation award is regarded as part of the marital asset pot available for distribution in the event of divorce or judicial separation?
  

• Confidentiality and (un)authorised disclosures of Children Act documents for use in Financial Remedy proceedings

  The practice of including case papers from concluded Children Act proceedings in bundles for FR proceedings is a poor and dangerous one, even if the disclosure is inadvertent. Contempt of court is the most extreme penalty. An examination of this topic…
  

• Is it time to reclaim s.25 in cases involving pensions?

  This addresses the question as to whether the legal profession should reflect on its response to recent developments in sharing/offsetting of pensions. It asks: have we taken our eye off the s.25 criteria in the headlong pursuit of expert-led pension parity?
  

• Spousal death during proceedings for financial relief on divorce or separation – an in-depth examination of Mostyn J’s judgment in Hasan v Ul-Hasan (Deceased) & Anor, “an impressive and fascinating treatise in which he discusses the law, from the 18^th to the 21^st century, covering spousal relationships, the meaning of the phrase ‘causes of action’, and matrimonial financial claims following the death of a spouse”.
  

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