# 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: In-person
- Date: Tuesday, 24 March 2026, 10:00AM to 4:00PM (registration from 9:30AM)
- Venue: The Lowry Hotel, 50 Dearmans Place, Manchester, M3 5LH
- 5 hours CPD
- Rates: Live Attendance £299.00 + VAT per person
- Status: This conference has taken place
- Book: https://whitepaper.co.uk/conferences/matfinmanchester26

## Programme

- 09:30 Registration and coffee
- 10:00 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
- 10:10 Needs & Sharing: How - right now - are needs and sharing interacting in financial remedies proceedings, and which factors will actually sway the court?
  - Answered by Sally Harrison KC, St John's Buildings
- 10:45 Capacity & Coercion: How do you control - and overcome - difficulties if you suspect one party is being coerced, manipulated or lacks mental capacity?
  - Answered by Andrew Bagchi KC, 1GC Family Law
- 11:20 Morning coffee
- 11:35 Matrimonialisation: Where is the leeway to structure wealth so that it avoids matrimonialisation in light of Standish [2025], and what if one party shares and the other doesn’t?
  - Answered by Justin Warshaw KC, 1 Hare Court Chambers
- 12:10 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 Nick Power, Broadway House Chambers
- 12:45 Overrun
- 13:00 Lunch
- 13:45 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, In-House Counsel, JMW Solicitors
- 14:20 Business Assets: 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
- 14:55 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, 36 Family
- 15:30 Overrun
- 16:00 Close of conference

## How to book

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