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At a Glance 2007/08: Essential Court Tables for Ancillary Relief isbn 9781859591826

Subjects:

Family Law

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....from the Preface

A number of changes in Ancillary Relief Practice and Procedure over the last year merit record:-

• Prime amongst them is the continuation of consistent movement towards implosion of the Child Support Agency. Its decline now looks to be terminal: it is charted in the text to Child Support. At the very least radical surgery is needed. Serious consideration should be given to amputating some of its assessment and perhaps enforcement limbs and grafting them back again on to the family court tree.
• In December 2005 significant and detailed amendments were made to the practice in respect of pension-sharing and attachment orders. These revisions are reflected in the updated Pension Sharing Procedure table.
• On 3 April 2006 the latest version of the Ancillary Relief Rules came into force and is reproduced in this volume. Finger-tip access to all earlier renditions (including that briefly operative between 6 December 2005 and 2 April 2006) is in @eGlance.
• The April 2006 Rule revisions introduce very significant changes to the costs rules applicable to ancillary relief applications. The essential materials for what is an entirely new approach are gathered together in Costs: The New Rules. Calderbank is dead: long live the ‘No Order’ principle.
• Financial applications in the context of civil partnerships have had the Matrimonial Causes Act framework applied to them. The respective progeny and provenance of the relevant sections of that statute and of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 are set out in a new Civil Partnership: Table of Correspondances.
• The fundamental changes to general pension law which took effect on 6 April 2006 are summarised in Pensions: A-Day Résumé. These new provisions render less obviously relevant the Value of Lost Pension table which past editions carried. The limits on pension contributions as a percentage of net relevant earnings have been abolished, so that those details are no longer included in Principal Points of Interest.

However, interest and indeed excitement mount as this fifteenth annual edition of At A Glance goes to press and we await the imminent decision of the House of Lords in the conjoined appeals in McFarlane and Miller. It remains to be seen whether there will be refinement of or retreat from White. Watch out also for a substantially recast President’s Direction which, perhaps with effect from 1 October 2006, will revoke and replace Court Bundles.

Once again on the CD which accompanies this volume you have the chance to browse amongst the Class Publishing’s software stable: not only the complementary @eGlance, but also Capitalise, Child’s Pay, Quantum Pro and Care.