Following a recent report commissioned by Home Secretary Priti Patel, crimes against women and girls are to be considered as much of a priority to the police as anti-terrorism. The report has described inconsistencies in the police’s response to such crimes against women as an “epidemic” of violence against female victims in the UK. More than 1 in 10 of all offences recorded by the police are domestic abuse-related. Several recommendations have now been made that include the consideration … [Read more...]
Financial Disclosure on Divorce – No longer a game of hide and seek
It is a fundamental requirement of the Court that when a couple are deciding upon the division of matrimonial assets on divorce, both parties owe an absolute duty to provide full, open and honest financial disclosure. As an oligarch’s son Temur Akhmedovrecently discovered, when he was ordered to pay his mother £75m for helping his billionaire father hide millions of pounds of assets from the Court to avoid a sizeable £453m divorce settlement! This fundamental requirement of financial … [Read more...]