Cases Delay Striking Out Applications Open in A v B [2018] EWFC 45 Judgment date: 14 June 2018http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2018/45.html Related LIN v PAR [2025] EWFC 401 Peel J. Final hearing in financial remedy proceedings. The couple's 2002 draft consent order had not been sealed by the court, but the parties had acted upon it with the belief that it had been formalised. Peel J determined that it constituted a Xydhias agreement. Silberschmidt v Richards [2025] EWHC 2841 (Fam) Poole J. Husband’s appeal against setting aside of final consent order for fraudulent non-disclosure dismissed; wife’s delay not determinative. LIN v PAR [2025] EWFC 401 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2025/401?query=lin+par Read the journal Financial Remedies Journal – 2026 Issue 2 | Summer Open in Related LIN v PAR [2025] EWFC 401 Peel J. Final hearing in financial remedy proceedings. The couple's 2002 draft consent order had not been sealed by the court, but the parties had acted upon it with the belief that it had been formalised. Peel J determined that it constituted a Xydhias agreement. Silberschmidt v Richards [2025] EWHC 2841 (Fam) Poole J. Husband’s appeal against setting aside of final consent order for fraudulent non-disclosure dismissed; wife’s delay not determinative. LIN v PAR [2025] EWFC 401 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2025/401?query=lin+par Latest Pets on Divorce and Separation: Why the Consultation Matters The Working Group on Pets on Divorce and Separation is concerned about the lack of guidance in relation to pets as chattels. The current reform project provides an opportunity to consider whether the approach taken in jurisdictions such as Spain and Australia would be appropriate here. Bringing Child Welfare to the Fore: Why the Financial Remedies Reform Consultation Should Unify the Section 25 Checklist Caroline Bowden, Sophie Connors and James Pirrie, working as part of a reform sub-group of the Family Solutions Group, propose an adjustment of s 25 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, merging and reassembling subsections (2) and (3). A Fairer End to Relationships? Some Reflections on the Core Principles of the Government’s Proposals to Reform the Law of Financial Remedies on Divorce. In June 2026, the Ministry of Justice published ‘A fairer end to relationships’, a wide-ranging consultation on reforms to the law of financial remedies on divorce, and to the position of cohabitants. This piece focuses on the central principles of the proposed reforms. is curated by The Leaders In Family Law Books & Software EXPLORE OUR PRODUCTS
LIN v PAR [2025] EWFC 401 Peel J. Final hearing in financial remedy proceedings. The couple's 2002 draft consent order had not been sealed by the court, but the parties had acted upon it with the belief that it had been formalised. Peel J determined that it constituted a Xydhias agreement.
Silberschmidt v Richards [2025] EWHC 2841 (Fam) Poole J. Husband’s appeal against setting aside of final consent order for fraudulent non-disclosure dismissed; wife’s delay not determinative.
LIN v PAR [2025] EWFC 401 Peel J. Final hearing in financial remedy proceedings. The couple's 2002 draft consent order had not been sealed by the court, but the parties had acted upon it with the belief that it had been formalised. Peel J determined that it constituted a Xydhias agreement.
Silberschmidt v Richards [2025] EWHC 2841 (Fam) Poole J. Husband’s appeal against setting aside of final consent order for fraudulent non-disclosure dismissed; wife’s delay not determinative.
Pets on Divorce and Separation: Why the Consultation Matters The Working Group on Pets on Divorce and Separation is concerned about the lack of guidance in relation to pets as chattels. The current reform project provides an opportunity to consider whether the approach taken in jurisdictions such as Spain and Australia would be appropriate here.
Bringing Child Welfare to the Fore: Why the Financial Remedies Reform Consultation Should Unify the Section 25 Checklist Caroline Bowden, Sophie Connors and James Pirrie, working as part of a reform sub-group of the Family Solutions Group, propose an adjustment of s 25 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, merging and reassembling subsections (2) and (3).
A Fairer End to Relationships? Some Reflections on the Core Principles of the Government’s Proposals to Reform the Law of Financial Remedies on Divorce. In June 2026, the Ministry of Justice published ‘A fairer end to relationships’, a wide-ranging consultation on reforms to the law of financial remedies on divorce, and to the position of cohabitants. This piece focuses on the central principles of the proposed reforms.