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The Court of Appeal has dismissed a father’s appeal against an order allowing his ex-wife (Barry McAlinden’s client) to relocate with the parties’ 2 children to a non-Hague convention country. This is the 1st case in the Court of Appeal to consider the interplay of Practice Direction 12J and relocation.
Resolution has published its 3rd edition of Cohabitation Law and Practice Handbook which includes 2 chapters written by Christopher Stirling. The handbook is a practical guide to cohabitation law for family lawyers advising unmarried couples on complex property and trust law principles and related matters.
Dr Sara Hunton discusses Standish v Standish in which the Supreme Court upheld the Court of Appeal’s largest ever reduction of a divorce award. Previously, the Court of Appeal had reduced the wife’s award from £45 million to £25 million finding that some of the husband’s assets should not have been treated as ‘matrimonial’.
Housing law practitioners will be familiar with the appointment of Equality Act assessors when a disability discrimination defence goes to trial. Genevieve Screeche-Powell discusses how the recent judgment in Laidley v Metropolitan Housing Trust Ltd [2025] EWCA Civ 448 impacts the requirement to disclose the advice of these and other court-appointed assessors.