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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
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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
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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.
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- Disclosure
!19/12/2024 11:39
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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.
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!17/12/2024 09:30
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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.
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- divorce
!06/12/2024 14:31
Latest cases
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ST v AR [2025] EWFC 49 January 2025
HHJ Vincent (sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge). Final hearing in a high-value case. Court making findings on whether H’s large inheritance had been matrimonialised, W’s entitlement to a second home, and who should be awarded the family home.
- Cases
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Needs
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HK v SS [2025] EWFC 5 (B)14 January 2025
HHJ Simmonds, National Lead Judge for Divorce. Guidance on when a delay between conditional order being made, and application for a final order, is delay sufficient to cause the court to question whether a final order should be made.
- Cases
- Setting Aside a Decree Nisi
- Divorce Orders
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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.
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- Foreign Assets
- Interim Relief
- Jurisdiction
- Maintenance Pending Suit
- Legal Services Payment Orders