NEW BRIEFING PAPER COMING SOON
An update to our 2024 briefing aims to prompt reflection and discussion on AI in the family justice system.
The paper will be available to download on our website soon. Keep an eye on our social media for updates.
Announced today that the Transparency Reporting Pilot For Financial Remedy Proceedings will be extended for a further year from 30 January 2026 to 29 January 2027. #divorce #familylaw #financialremedies @familylaw.bsky.social
26.01.2026 11:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 01 in 5 marriages begin with a prenup according to the marriage Foundation marriagefoundation.org.uk/wp-content/u... #familylaw
17.11.2025 16:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Just submitted “matrimonialisation” to the Collins English Dictionary. Let’s see if it makes the cut... #neologism #languageevolution #CollinsDictionary #divorce #financialremedies
06.11.2025 10:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The House of Lords has published a focus document dealing with the recent Fair Shares report and will be considering the document in a short debate on 10 November 2025. 3.1 and 3.2 deal with the responses to the document thus far...
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The digital divorce route has clearly helped improve delays in the processing of divorce applications. A remarkable improvement against the background of funding cuts - a truly incredible achievement for HMCTS #divorce
22.09.2025 20:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Interesting stats on the volume of paper and digital divorce applications in recent HMCTS stats. A notable increase post-law change in 2022 that an exclusively paper process would have buckled under the weight of...? #divorce #financialremedies
22.09.2025 20:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An updated ES2 asset schedule is now required in all FR cases including a built-in currency converter, clear version tracking + case details “Agreed clarifications”. Courts are expecting full compliance. At present note that cell E129 incorrectly adds E33
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My thoughts on the Supreme Court Standish judgment www.stephens-scown.co.uk/family/divor...
02.07.2025 22:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Still coming to terms with my creation today and I’m reminded of this…#excel
10.06.2025 19:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Isn’t this a bit like showing a picture of a ball in a net with a caption saying greatest goal ever?
02.06.2025 22:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@theomedia.bsky.social have you uncovered an AI music notation solution that is any good? Lots of options but nothing I’ve found that can accurately transcribe jazz piano solos with accuracy, for example??
10.05.2025 11:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The case of Standish begins in the Supreme Court today to consider one question crucial to most divorcing couples: “when one partner in a marriage has accumulated assets prior to tying the knot, what portion should the other partner receive on divorce”. supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2...
30.04.2025 09:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Broken Justice: how Europe let its courts decay
https://www.ft.com/content/1db340c7-c880-4159-bed2-15b8c10ccbc5
The headline says “Only 1361 days to go” The picture in black and white with a cream background is of a badly injured bald eagle. Its legs are in bandages with strapping around its neck and on its head. Some of its feathers are lying on the ground, detached painfully from its body.
The cover of this week’s Economist.
24.04.2025 14:15 — 👍 9499 🔁 2277 💬 268 📌 206A handy critique of Wells sharing and application of Versteegh discounting by Peel J in BR v BR www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...
06.04.2025 16:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Comparisons between Trumpism and Brexit are unhelpful.
Though its delusions were disastrous, the UK Conservative leadership repeatedly pivoted away from the worst abyss when faced with consequences even if that meant dumping Cummings, Johnson and Truss in ways Republicans will not with Trump.
M v F & Another. Mrs Justice Harris permits a mother to tell her story in interviews and talks under an alias we will publish a report on this lengthy judgment soon. #transparency #OpenJustice #FamilyCourt #FreedomIfExpression: caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/202...
05.04.2025 11:03 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Just in case...anyone, anyone...you needed a reminder...anyone, anyone...that Ben Stein...anyone, anyone...was not only a actor, but a great economic professor.
Tarriffs are BAD economics.
So good. 🤡
@brendanvduke.bsky.social
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New research highlights prevalence of the divorce gap where couples try to split assets without the help of lawyers. www.ft.com/content/fe6f...
03.04.2025 21:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Anyone? anyone?
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Demographics isn’t always the sexiest topic in the world, but ignoring the sensationalist title of the video, @kurzgesagt.org do a fantastic job of running the numbers here... youtu.be/Ufmu1WD2TSk?...
02.04.2025 21:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Divorce numbers are down year on year, however delays appear to be worsening with average time from application to conditional order 45 weeks and to final order 70 weeks, up 3 and 2 weeks respectively from the equivalent 2023 quarter #divorce
31.03.2025 12:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New Court statistics out confirming between October and December 24, financial remedy application numbers are up 5% and the number of disposal events are up 29% compared to the same period in 2023 #divorce #financialremedy
31.03.2025 12:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
One in 10 divorcees have forgotten to remove ex spouse as beneficiary of their life insurance according to Legal & General healthcareandprotection.com/one-in-10-di...
27.03.2025 13:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New guidance released emphasising the restrictions on the sharing of information outside of court in family proceedings www.gov.uk/guidance/sha...
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New guidance published today on the move from digital to paper in the Family Court. Includes the promise of "dedicated support on the phone or by webchat through our Court and Tribunal Service Centre". www.gov.uk/government/c...
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#woodburycommon
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