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Ma v Roux: Yes, You Can Strike Out a Set Aside Application
This is a response to the FRJ blog post by Nicholas Allen KC and Philip Tait, ‘Ma v Roux: Can You Strike Out a Set Aside Application?’ (25 September 2024), which posed the question as to whether the court is empowered to strike out an application to set aside a financial remedy order. In that article the authors carefully set out the background to this issue.
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- Striking Out Applications
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
!08/01/2025 13:21
The Lord Chancellor v 79 Divorced Couples: A Pirate’s Tale
At the end of term, the High Court handed down judgment in a challenging case, whose solution lay in the application of a much-forgotten 53-year-old judgment of the ‘pirate-like’ Sir Jocelyn Simon P to seemingly irresolvable issues caused by errors in the digitalisation of the divorce process.
- Blog
- divorce
!06/01/2025 11:03
The Duty of Disclosure: as Important Now as Ever
The duty of disclosure and its proactive nature runs through financial remedy proceedings like letters through a stick of seaside rock. It appears on the face of the Form E. It has been set out in numerous cases.
- Blog
- Disclosure
!19/12/2024 11:39
The Year in Review
As 2024 comes to an end the “Year in Review” brings all the FRJ blogs from the year together in one place for a ‘real time’ review of what was important, when, and why over the last 12 months.
- Blog
!17/12/2024 09:30
A Divorced Christmas Carol: A Story of Reflection and Change
A reworking of a well-known classic. Carol’s marriage was dead. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Carol’s marriage was as dead as a door-nail. Carol lay awake in bed alone on a chilly December night, staring up at the dark ceiling, feeling the weight of the divorce upon her.
- Blog
- divorce
!06/12/2024 14:31
Latest cases
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V v V [2024] EWFC 380 (B)19 December 2024
HHJ Booth. Appeal from a final order in a modest asset case, in which the court was tasked with balancing the needs of a party suffering from a serious disability and the needs of the primary carer of the children of the family.
- Cases
- Housing Need
- Appeals
- Mesher Orders and Deferred Charges
- Needs
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WW v XX [2024] EWFC 330 (B)11 October 2024
HHJ Hess. Final hearing involving valuation and matrimonial nature of business.
- Cases
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Experts
- Companies
- Valuations
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KV v KV [2024] EWFC 1653 July 2024
Peel J. Application by W for (i) Maintenance Pending Suit pursuant to s 22 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 and (ii) a Legal Services Payment Order pursuant to s 22ZA of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973.
- Cases
- Foreign Assets
- Interim Relief
- Jurisdiction
- Maintenance Pending Suit
- Legal Services Payment Orders
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Dickason v Dickason [2024] EWFC 285 (B)27 August 2024
HHJ Sweeney. H was a serial ‘non-attender’. In December 2021, H failed to attend the final hearing listed in the financial remedies proceedings. H had failed to comply with any directions made in advance of the hearing. A few days before the listing, H (via an email sent by his partner) made an application to adjourn. That application was refused, adverse inferences were drawn, and final orders were made in H’s absence.
- Cases
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HKW v CRH [2024] EWFC 358 (B)4 December 2024
DDJ Rose. Final hearing in modest asset case. Court making findings on the validity of H’s purported loans/gifts to the parties’ children. Consideration of the Kimber factors concerning point of cohabitation.
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