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Final Reflections on Standish: Was It All Worthwhile?
If asked, Mr Standish may say that three rounds of litigation, with another to follow, were worth it – Mrs Standish, perhaps not. But for lawyers, with many questions left unanswered, and a feeling that the opportunity to settle the law on matrimonialisation with clarity and certainty has passed us by, it may not have been worthwhile.
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- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Matrimonialisation
!09/07/2025 10:15
OS v DT and Post-Separation Income: Fairness Trumps Inflexibility
In a previous post Nicholas Allen KC considered the potential impact of Waggott v Waggott [2018] 2 FLR 406 on the argument that income (or the assets or capital generated therefrom) earned in or referable to the first 12 months post-separation should be classed as matrimonial property to which the sharing principle applies. This issue has now been revisited in OS v DT [2025] EWFC 156 (B) per HHJ Hess.
- Blog
- Post-Separation Accrual
!08/07/2025 07:00
A Priceless Inheritance: Family Law, Open Justice and the Rule of Law
Sir Nicholas Mostyn presented on this topic at the Bar Council’s law reform lecture 2025, on 2 July 2025. This monograph is the property of Sir Nicholas Mostyn.
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!03/07/2025 06:00
Non Court Dispute Resolution – What Difference Does a Year (and a Bit) Make?18 June 2025
Important revisions to both FPR Part 3 and Part 28 came into effect on 29 April 2024 when the material parts of the Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023 came into force.
- Blog
- NCDR
Financial Remedy Reform – ‘Fairness’ – Do Divorcing Parties Get Any Say – Time for Some Soul Searching for Family Law Professionals
Ashley Murray considers the Law Commission’s 373-page scoping report on Financial Remedies on Divorce and Dissolution, which was published just before Christmas 2024.
- Blog
- Private FDR
!30/06/2025 06:58
Latest cases
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PN v SA [2025] EWFC 14123 May 2025
Cobb J. Third-largest financial remedy case in the jurisdiction’s history. The judge set aside a separation agreement entered into by W under significant emotional and psychological pressure.
- Cases
- Agreements
- Coercive Control
- Undue Influence
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AP v TP (Pension Enforcement) [2025] EWFC 190 (B)13 June 2025
HHJ Farquhar. Application by husband to set aside a PSO under the Thwaite jurisdiction due to the wife’s sustained non-compliance. The court held that continued enforcement of the PSO would be inequitable given the respondent’s conduct, the applicant’s age and deteriorating health, and the executory nature of the order.
- Cases
- Barder Applications
- Pensions on Divorce
- 'Thwaite Jurisdiction'
- Delay
- Executory Orders
- Enforcement
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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PZ v ZD (Financial Remedies: Needs: Adverse Inferences: Taking of Evidence from Outside the Jurisdiction) [2025] EWFC 171 (B)20 March 2025
Judgment by DDJ G Evans in a modest asset case involving significant non-disclosure and the taking of evidence from a respondent in a non-Hague Convention jurisdiction (here, Pakistan).
- Cases
- Indemnity Against Unknown Liabilities
- Adverse Inferences
- Attendance From Outside The Jurisdiction
- Debts
- Needs
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Adodo v Tan [2025] EWFC 184 (B)27 June 2025
HHJ Rodgers. Re-hearing following an appeal to the Court of Appeal against a final order made by District Judge Severn on 10 October 2022. On appeal, it was held there had been a misunderstanding of crucial funds available overseas, leading to a fundamentally flawed final decision.
- Cases
- Overseas Assets
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Sharing
- Departure From Equality
- Costs
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JQ v IQ [2025] EWFC 192 (B)23 June 2025
HHJ Vincent. A Pakistani divorce was deemed to be valid in the UK on public policy grounds and permission was granted for the wife to bring financial remedies proceedings in this jurisdiction.This hearing concerned the wife’s application under s 13…
- Cases
- Jurisdiction
- Divorce Orders
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act
- International Enforcement