# Matrimonial Finance Law & Practice: Shaping New Developments into Solution-Focused Answers for Your Clients

> Court-Proven, Solution-Focused Answers to 7 of the Thorniest Legal Challenges facing Experienced Practitioners: Directly from Top-Flight King’s Counsel, Judges and Senior Juniors

- Format: Hybrid
- Date: Tuesday, 19 May 2026, 10:00AM to 4:00PM (registration from 9:30AM)
- On-demand: 26 May 2026 until 29 September 2026
- Venue: The Caledonian Club, 9 Halkin Street, London, SW1X 7DR
- 5 hours CPD
- Rates: On-Demand Single £199.00 + VAT per person; On-Demand Team £299.00 + VAT per team
- Status: This conference has taken place
- Book: https://whitepaper.co.uk/conferences/matfinance26

## Programme

- Chair's Introduction: Matrimonial Finance Law & Practice: Shaping new developments into solution-focused answers for your clients
  - Chaired by Samantha Hillas KC, St John's Buildings
- Needs & Sharing: What’s the latest judicial thinking on needs, conduct and sharing, including pre-acquired assets and income streams?
  - Answered by Michael Horton KC, Coram Chambers
- Pre-acquired pensions: How should practitioners approach the matrimonialisation of pre-acquired pensions, and what implementation, appeal and set-aside issues are now arising in practice?
  - Answered by Rhys Taylor, The 36 Group
- Private businesses: How far can you push the courts over non-equal divisions of private businesses with arguments over liquidity, business risk or quasi-partnership status?
  - Answered by Nicholas Yates KC, 1 Hare Court Chambers
- Dissipation: What is the latest judicial thinking on dissipation — including post-separation expenditure, soft loans, credit-card spending and add-backs?
  - Answered by Abigail Bennett, JMW Solicitors
- Agreement in principle: How do you reopen or vary ‘agreement in principle’ deals that never made it into a sealed consent order following recent cases?
  - Answered by Christopher Miller, Fourteen
- Capacity & Coercion: How do you rescue a financial remedies case where you suspect - or are told - that one party is coerced, manipulated or lacks capacity?
  - Answered by Andrew Bagchi KC, 1GC Family Law
- Third-party Interests: In the face of judicial inconsistency, how do you balance third-party beneficial interests with the s.25 needs exercise - and when is joinder unavoidable?
  - Answered by Andrzej Bojarski KC, The 36 Group

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