Rebecca Davies represented a former wife in her successful contempt application concerning a financial remedies judgment given in 2022.
Applications to start pupillage with us in September 2027 are open. We are offering 12- month pupillage to up to 2 successful candidates. The deadline for submitting your application is Thursday 22 January. Successful applicants will be contacted late March/April 2026 with a date and time for interview.
Christopher Stirling will speak at the Jersey International Family Law Conference sponsored by Corbett le Quesne on Friday 3 October. The theme of the conference is non-court dispute resolution. He will discuss the use of the civil mediation model in resolving family finance disputes.
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.
Pupil barristers James Fowler and Andrew Burrell have accepted offers of tenancy with us. They will join us as tenants in September after completing their pupillages.
Aristide Hoang-Brown secured a Mesher Order on behalf of the applicant wife in financial remedy proceedings, along with periodical payments from the husband, ensuring that she could remain living in the former matrimonial home with their child.
Rebecca Davies will argue against the motion 'The Law Commission is right – our Financial Remedy law is outmoded and needs fundamental change’ at Family Law Week’s financial remedy: practice & procedure conference on Tuesday 11 March.
David Brounger represented a property developer who successfully brought a claim in the High Court against his former business associate for breaches of undertakings given to the court. The defendant was sentenced to 6 months' imprisonment, suspended for 2 years on stringent conditions relating to the disclosure of his assets.