LM v DM [2021] demonstrates the judiciary's evolving approach to Family Law cases, and serves as a salutary reminder that we lawyers have an important duty to negotiate fairly and openly.
Resolving matters requires constructive efforts - and not sleep-walking or frog-marching cases to court.
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This is just one judgment of many judgments handed down by Mostyn J where, despite being successful in their application, a litigant in a financial remedy case has had a costs order made against them for failing to negotiate openly and reasonably.
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