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Civil Fraud Quarterly Round-Up: Q4 2025
Mary Young
25 August 2015
Adultery and divorce – they think it’s all over….but it ain’t necessarily so
Divorce lawyers and the media across the world were woken from their sun loungers for one of those ‘irresistible’ PR moments last week as news broke of the data hack of subscribers to Ashley Madison, the dating website encouraging extramarital affairs. When Steve Mindel in Los Angeles plumbed the depths with “It’s going to be Christmas in September”, predicting a rush of unseasonal new enquiries, he might as well have been quoting the Sex Pistols “A cheap holiday in other people’s misery”.
24 July 2015
Pre-nups and divorce - disclosing too much or too little?
As family solicitors, we invest time in carefully explaining to our clients the importance of clear, full and frank disclosure. But what we typically have in mind are those people who think they can hide from the Court’s (or, more precisely, their spouse’s) prying eyes in divorce proceedings that secret bank balance saved for a rainy day, an offshore fund they think will be impossible to track, or the beneficial ownership of a company hidden behind a corporate structure.
1 June 2015
Children and mediation – The MoJ responds to Dispute Resolution Advisory Group’s final “Voice of The Child” report
Guest author Harry Nosworthy, Barrister at 4 Paper Buildings, looks at the MOJ's response to the Dispute Resolution Advisory Group’s final “Voice of The Child” report and evaluates the questions yet to be addressed.
21 April 2015
Farming divorces – any closer to equality?
The way that family law approaches and determines financial claims upon divorce has undergone seismic changes over the last 15 years.. Prior to the House of Lords decision in White v White [2001] AC 596, the law applied a “reasonable needs and requirements” arguments in order to determine the competing financial claims of a husband and wife on divorce. It was in fact a farming case that brought about the change in favour of an equal division, when Mrs White took her financial claims all the way to the House of Lords.
17 April 2015
The Wright divorce - joint lives maintenance and the bikini test
The last 30 years has been marked by an extraordinary growth in awards made to wives on divorce. Retirement, as the recent case of Wright shows, is a time for change and review.
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