Mika Pine joins Trinity Chambers
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by Jeremy Simison
8M ago
We are delighted to announce that Mika Pine has joined Trinity Chambers.  Mika has been a family barrister practising in the region for many years and will be well known to many local solicitors. Specialising in family law, Mika accepts instructions in all areas surrounding family breakdown from domestic abuse and injunctive relief, to arrangements for children, care proceedings and finances on divorce. For more information or to instruct Mika, please contact the clerks via clerks@trinitychambers.com. The post Mika Pine joins Trinity Chambers appeared first on Trinity Chambers ..read more
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KOUKASH V KOUKASH Neutral Citation Number: [2022] EWHC 1001 (Fam) Beware the “booby trapped bundle”
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by Jeremy Simison
10M ago
Facts – the wife’s solicitors prepared a trial bundle (the husband was in person) they had inadvertently put before the court a bundle containing the husband’s without prejudice offer without any reference to him and without any discussion of it at any time. The error appears to have been caused by the fact that this was an updated version of the FDR bundle which had not had the “without prejudice” correspondence removed.  The trial judge relied on the contents of the without prejudice offer in his judgement though neither party had referred him to it and counsel for the applicant had onl ..read more
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Unregistered experts in family proceedings: Re C (“parental alienation”: instruction of expert) [2023] EWHC 345 (Fam)
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by Jeremy Simison
11M ago
Unregistered experts in family proceedings: Re C (“parental alienation”: instruction of expert) [2023] EWHC 345 (Fam) Introduction This anticipated judgment from the President of the Family Division provides guidance in relation to the instruction of unregistered experts. Within the substantive proceedings, parental alienation had been found to have taken place and the President took the opportunity  to comment on how the court should approach allegations of this nature. Background Proceedings were commenced in respect of the parties’ two children, aged 11 and 13, shortly after the parent ..read more
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Christmas Opening Hours
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by Jeremy Simison
1y ago
Our Christmas opening hours will be: Friday 23rd December 8.30am to 2pm We will then re-open on Tuesday 3rd January 2023 at 8.30am In case of emergency, please contact our out of hours number – 07981 195851 Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year The post Christmas Opening Hours appeared first on Trinity Chambers ..read more
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“One day my son, all this will be yours” – Guest and another (Appellant) v Guest (Respondent) [2022] UKSC 27
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by Jeremy Simison
1y ago
On 19th October 2022, the Supreme Court handed down its much-anticipated judgment in Guest and another v Guest. Here the court addressed the proper basis for awarding remedies in cases of proprietary estoppel. Background “One day my son, all this will be yours”. These words were spoken on numerous occasions and repeated over the years from a father to his son. The son relied on this promise of inheritance spending thirty-two years working and living on the family farm, expecting, one day, to inherit the farm from his father. However, the relationship broke down to such an extent that not only ..read more
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In Memoriam: Queen Elizabeth II (21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022)
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by Jeremy Simison
1y ago
The post In Memoriam: Queen Elizabeth II (21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022) appeared first on Trinity Chambers ..read more
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Always check what you’re signing up to – the court’s position on concluded agreements: Horohoe v Horohoe [2020] All ER (D) 158 (Nov)
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by Jeremy Simison
1y ago
FACTS Sharon Horohoe (W) and Ciaran Horohoe (H) married in 1994 but in 2010 decided to go their separate ways. They had accrued a number of sizeable assets over the past two decades and in 2012 they negotiated an agreement, with the help of a family friend, as to how their assets were to be divided. This agreement involved W receiving the former matrimonial home and a number of rental properties, whilst H would receive the remaining rental properties and two companies through which he operated as a carpenter and property developer. At the time, the parties believed that the companies held no m ..read more
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Domestic Abuse Act 2021: The Prohibition of Cross-Examination by Perpetrators of Abuse in Family and Civil Courts
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by Jeremy Simison
1y ago
On the 21st July 2022 Sections 65 and 66 were introduced into the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 and apply to the family and civil courts in England and Wales. The effect of these provisions is to prohibit perpetrators and alleged perpetrators of abuse from cross-examining their victims in person and vice versa in specified circumstances. The provisions are not retroactive, and as such shall only apply to proceedings which are brought on or after the 21st July 2022. In instances where cross-examination is required, the court may appoint a qualified legal representative who shall conduct the cross-exa ..read more
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Financial Remedies Court Notice
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by Jeremy Simison
1y ago
Mr Justice Peel and His Honour Judge Hess, with the authority of the President of the Family Vision, have published an amended document titled “Overall Structure of the Financial Remedies Court and the Role and Function of the Lead Judge”. The document represents one of the constitutional documents of the Financial Remedies Court. The amendments are new paras 12(iii) and (iv) which appear between 12 (ii) and old 12(iii). They provide: first, for  prospective new FRC judges to receive such training and sitting in as may be required by the National Lead Judge of the Financial Remedies Court ..read more
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Supreme Court remits care proceedings for re-hearing following proportionality failings: H-W (Children) No 2 [2022] UKSC 17
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by Jeremy Simison
1y ago
Supreme Court remits care proceedings for re-hearing following proportionality failings   H-W (Children) No 2 [2022] UKSC 17 On 15 June 2022, the Supreme Court gave judgment in an appeal concerning ‘the proportionality of care orders made in relation to three children and appellate review of those orders.’ Dame Siobhan Keegan gives the judgment, with which all the other members of the Court agree. Facts The Mother (first appellant) has 6 children, including C (aged 14), D (aged 11), E (aged 9) and F. The second appellant was the mother’s partner, who is also F’s father. This case had a lo ..read more
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