It’s Payback Time It sounds like a perfectly reasonable idea, taking money from criminal’s ill-gotten gains, recovering their proceeds of crime. Under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA) provisions were enacted to make this possible. Criminal Funds Under POCA,...Read MoreTags: conduct, proceeds of crime, POCA, matrimonial home, s.25 matrimonial causes act, enforcement, family law, divorce
It wasn’t me In our recent post on conduct (Stirring it in the Family Courts) we highlighted what can happen in cases where one or other of the parties’ behaviour is such that it can persuade the court to change or impact on the exercise of its discretion to...Read MoreTags: s.25 matrimonial causes act, litigation conduct, conduct, financial proceedings, divorce
“…And the Dish ran away with the Spoon” In a recently reported case, (now fully reported here) the wife in financial remedy proceedings may now lose thousands of pounds after what was described as a ‘wooden spoon incident’ involving the...Read MoreTags: divorce, family law, paradigm family law, financial, financial proceedings, conduct