Trinity Chambers' Seth Kitson has had an article published in the August 2025 edition of Family Law Journal, [2025] Fam Law 992. In the article, Seth examines the jurisdiction of the Financial Remedies Court (“FRC”) to determine third-party Business and Property claims within financial remedy proceedings.
Entitled 'Cross-courted: the Jurisdictional Limits of the FR Court in Respect of Business & Property Matters', Seth's article explores the limits of this FRC’s jurisdiction, the limits of the relevant jurisprudence, the importance of understanding the doctrine of issue estoppel and highlights cases where it will often be inappropriate to add third parties as intervenors to proceedings.
The full article is available here to Family Law subscribers and covers the following topics:
- What is an intervenor claim?
- What is issue estoppel and when does it arise?
- What is the statutory jurisdiction of the Family Court (cf the High Court/County Court)?
- In light of the statutory position, what is the underlying rationale of the FRC’s jurisdiction to hear third party claims?
- What are the inherent limits/problems with the FRC’s third party jurisdiction?
Family Law is the leading practitioner journal and has been the title of record in family law since 1970.
Seth is a specialist in Business and Property and Financial Remedy work and is one of only a handful of practitioners ranked in the legal directories for both. Seth is regularly invited to address other members of the profession and has provided training for the judicial college on the issue of third-party claims. Recent directory entries include:
"A strong and confident advocate with a calming influence. He is practical and level-headed."
Legal 500
"A very tenacious advocate, while being very calm and measured with clients; he's got both sides of the coin.""...good with the clients, good on paper and very good on his feet."
Chambers & Partners