Bundle of Joy: New PD27A for 2026
New Practice Direction on Bundles, Position Statements etc., effective 2 March 2026 If you’re the sort of lawyer who keeps old editions of the Red Book (etc.) in neat chronological order on your shelves – and let’s be honest, who isn’t – you’ll have noticed how they’ve got thicker as the years have gone by.…
Gottle O’ Geer: Witness Statements and their misuse
Most financial remedy cases don’t ‘go to trial’, for a host of good reasons: litigation is expensive, stressful and uncertain: even the strongest looking cases have been known to develop cracks when exposed to cross-examination. Sometimes, these emerge after methodical and attritional cross-questioning, where counsel leads the witness through a series of narrowing possibilities before…
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Sham, Adverse Inferences & the Burden of Proof: Adolowo [2025] EWCA Civ 641
It’s often the financial remedy cases that involve non-family barristers or judges, which are the most interesting. There’s something about an outsider’s perspective which can illuminate legal principle and remind us that ‘…the Family Court is not a desert island’. Lord Sumption put it best in his speech to the At A Glance conference (‘Family…
Legal Research, AI and the Canary in the Mineshaft
STOP PRESS (6.6.25): The President of the KBD has his say: [2025] EWHC 1383 (Admin) One of the sobering experiences of training to be a lawyer – the dawning realisation that it isn’t all dramatic cross-examination and fighting for the underdog – is legal research. Like learning a new language (let’s say, German), it’s a…
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Alexander Chandler KC FCIArb
I am a King’s Counsel at 1KBW, specialising in financial remedies, TLATA and Schedule 1. I sit as a Recorder in the family court and Crown court, private FDR judge and arbitrator (FCIArb).
Disclaimer: posts do not constitute legal advice, copyright 2023.
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