Chair’s Column (Spring 2026)
[2026] 1 FRJ 1. HHJ Edward Hess says farewell to Sir James Munby: 'the most inspirational figure I have come across in my legal and judicial career'.
HHJ Edward Hess | Chair of the Editorial Board
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HHJ Edward Hess, Chair of the Editorial Board, considers sitting day cuts in the London FRC, the observations of a litigant-in-person, the fact that family law does not live on a desert island on its own, and the Financial Remedies Conference 2025.
Chair’s Column
Transparency
The transparency debate – in the context of practices on anonymisation and rubrics – receives another punchy analysis from Sir Nicholas Mostyn in this issue of the journal in his article ‘Re-multiplied Propagation’. The difficulty here is that most of the judgments identified in his article (at High Court Judge level
Chair's Column (Spring 2025)
The Law Commission Scoping Report
This is the first issue of the FRJ since the Law Commission’s ‘scoping report’ was published in December 2024. The essence of a scoping report is that it steps back and paints an overview. It presents options (to the government or to Parliament); but
Reflections on the Law Commission Paper Financial remedies on divorce and dissolution: a scoping report published on 18 December 2024
Whilst the figures do vary from year to year, a broad perusal of the official statistics suggests that each year in England and Wales approximately 250,000 couples get married and approximately 100,000 applications for a divorce (formerly divorce petitions) are made. Almost all divorce applications conclude with a
Interview with Sir Nicholas Francis
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Nicholas Allen KC and HHJ Edward Hess interviewed Sir Nicholas Francis over dinner in December 2024, a few months after he retired from the High Court Bench
If I remember correctly, you didn’t originally want to be a family lawyer, you wanted to be a shipping lawyer. Is
Chair's Column (Winter 2024)
Duxbury
For more than three decades the Duxbury tables have held a strong position in the determination of outcomes in financial remedies cases involving the capitalisation of maintenance obligations. In the Spring 2023 edition of the FRJ, we published ‘Looking Back at Duxbury 30 Years On’ by Michael Allum et