Emma Hitchings
Emma鈥檚 is currently leading The Nuffield Foundation funded 鈥楩air Shares on Divorce鈥� project which aims to provide the first detailed, representative picture of the use of different kinds of financial arrangements reached by divorcing couples in England and Wales. She is also a Co-I on The Patches Project on parents and their children's experiences of separation and support. Her research themes within the network mainly focus on finances.
Email: E.hitchings@bristol.ac.uk
2021
Hitchings E (2021). Reconsidering the Duxbury Default. Child and Family Law Quarterly 33(3): 275-294.
Lowe N, Douglas G, Hitchings E and Taylor R (2021). Bromley鈥檚 Family Law (12th ed, OUP, May 2021).
2019
Smith L and Hitchings E (2019). Professionals and partisans: lessons for family lawyers from a study of fee-charging McKenzie Friends. Child and Family Law Quarterly, 31(4): 343-364.
Hitchings E and Miles J (2019). Rules Versus Discretion in Financial Remedies on Divorce. International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 33(1) 24-50.
2018
Miles J and Hitchings E (2018). Financial remedy outcomes on divorce in England and Wales: not a 鈥榤eal ticket for life鈥�. Australian Journal of Family Law, 31(2): 43-80.
Hitchings E and Miles J (2018). Financial remedies on divorce: the need for evidence-based reform, Briefing Paper, Nuffield Foundation:
2017
Hitchings E (2017). Official, Operative and Outsider Justice: the ties that (may not) bind in family financial disputes. Child and Family Law Quarterly 29(4) 359-378.
Smith L, Hitchings E and Sefton M (2017). A study of fee-charging McKenzie Friends and their work in private family law cases, Bar Council:
2016
Hitchings E and Miles J (2016). Mediation, financial remedies, information provision and legal advice: the post-LASPO conundrum Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 38(2) 175-195.
