The scandal of costs in financial remedy proceedings in English family law

Over the past few years and increasing in intensity, High Court and Court of Appeal judges have strongly condemned very high and/or disproportionate legal costs in financial remedy claims. This is troubling and not good for the reputation of English family law and family lawyers including with their clients.  This persistent judicial criticism has seen a flow of shocking court judgements being handed down with stark judicial language.  So changes of some form seem necessary and inevitable.  But it is wider, a significance for the English common law process of highly discretionary resolution of financial claims. Unless costs can quickly become proportionate and reasonable, the call for wholesale reform seems impossible to oppose.  Therefore what practical and realistic changes are now needed to bring proportionality between costs and claims?  My article written in August 2022