Alex Byrne

Alex Byrne

Alex Byrne is a solicitor at Wilsons LLP specialising in divorce and financial settlements. He is also a mediator working towards accreditation with t...

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K v P (Criminal Solicitor as Court-Appointed QLR) [2025] EWFC 321

Sir Andrew McFarlane, President of the Family Division. A court-appointed QLR was terminated in children proceedings where the same QLR was acting in a parallel criminal case, as the dual representation undermines the protective aims of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 scheme for vulnerable witnesses.

IN v CH [2025] EWFC 265 (08 July 2025)

W’s application for financial remedies. Trowell J was tasked with dividing the remaining assets of a couple who had previously enjoyed immense wealth that was significantly diminished due to the consequences of war.

BY v GC [2025] EWFC 226

Mr Nicholas Allen KC (sitting as a deputy High Court judge). In Financial Remedy proceedings, Nicholas Allen KC refused Daniels v Walker application to rely on expert evidence that valued the main business interests at less than the Single Joint Expert (SJE).

PZ v ZD (Financial Remedies: Needs: Adverse Inferences: Taking of Evidence from Outside the Jurisdiction) [2025] EWFC 171 (B)

Judgment date: 20 March 2025 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2025/171 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). Background The parties had a medium-length marriage of

Alex Byrne

Alex Byrne

Alex Byrne is a solicitor at Wilsons LLP specialising in divorce and financial settlements. He is also a mediator working towards accreditation with the FMC.