We’re pleased to highlight three compelling new articles by Samantha Singer, Thomas Haggie, and Joe Rainer in the current issue of the Financial Remedies Journal. Each author brings a fresh and critical perspective to key topics in financial remedies law — conduct, intervenors, and matrimonialisation.

• Samantha Singer explores the way conduct — particularly in cases involving abuse — is handled in family-court financial remedy proceedings. Her piece, The Problem with Conduct, argues that the system often demands a “measurable financial impact” before conduct is given weight, which can obscure harmful patterns of behaviour.

→ Read Samantha’s article here.

• Thomas (Tom) Haggie examines the distinctive treatment of intervenor claims in the family court, compared to civil courts. In his article Civil Law with Family Characteristics, he unpacks how procedural and substantive differences (such as the application of s 25 factors) make intervenor claims in family proceedings a unique challenge.

→ Access Tom’s article here.

• Joseph (Joe) Rainer tackles the recent Standish v Standish decision in his piece A Critical Take on Standish. He raises concerns about the “new test” for matrimonialisation introduced by the Supreme Court — particularly how “treating an asset as shared” could open the door to uncertainty and retrospective inference of intentions.

→ Read Joe’s article here