Sir James Munby, President of the Family Division, has made a judgment in the case of S v S, in which he upheld the decision (award) made through a private arbitration. The judgment made clear that, in the view of the President, “there is no conceptual difference...
In a recently published judgment by Mr Justice Mostyn, referring to a complex land trust dispute, he drew attention to the advantages of arbitration. “Where parties are agreed that their case should be afforded total privacy there is a very simple solution: they...
The Institute of Family Law Arbitrators – IFLA – has today (11 December 2012) submitted this response to the Law Commission’s consultation on on Matrimonial Property, Needs and Agreements. It suggests that family arbitration agreements might, in defined...