Tag: Financial Remedy Proceedings

On 1 November 2021, three days after the publication of the President’s Report on Transparency, Mostyn J handed down judgment in a case called BT v CU [2021] EWFC 87; [2022] 1 WLR 1349. This has turned out to be the first in a series of six judgments in which Mostyn J has rewritten the rules governing the reporting of financial remedies cases in the family courts described in Part One of this article. Continue reading

In 2015 Mostyn J commented, “To say that the law about the ability of the press to report ancillary relief proceedings which they are allowed to observe is a mess would be a serious understatement”: Appleton v Gallagher [2015] EWHC 2689 (Fam); [2016] EMLR 3, at [6]. Continue reading