Beth Payne (QEB)

Beth Payne (QEB)

Beth Payne is a pupil at QEB. Prior to this, she worked at the Law Commission as a research assistant, on the project team for the financial remedies on divorce scoping project.

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Re P (A Child) (Financial Provision: s 423 Insolvency Act 1986) [2025] EWHC 1460 (Fam)

Harrison J. A Schedule 1 application and connected application under s 423 Insolvency Act 1986. Order for provision of a housing fund; periodical payments; security for maintenance and school fees. The court came just short of making an order under s 423, but made relevant findings.

GO v YA [2024] EWFC 411

Judgment date: 13 December 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/411 HHJ Hess sitting as Deputy High Court Judge. Discussion of valuing art and H’s art business, the difficulties of valuing large collections of art, and problems that can arise when experts are not cross-examined at final

Vince v Vince [2024] EWFC 389

Judgment date: 20 December 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/389 Cusworth J. A long marriage with substantial wealth, held mostly in H’s green energy business. Questions of how to treat political donations; attributing value to pre- and post-marital business efforts; and discounting the value of a

T v B [2024] EWHC 3251 (Fam)

Judgment date: 08 November 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2024/3251 Trowell J. Application by the wife to continue a Hemain injunction made at short notice against the husband. H applied to set aside the injunction made. Trowell J, examining the facts of this case in the

HK v SS [2025] EWFC 5 (B)

Judgment date: 14 January 2025 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2025/5 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

Financial Remedies: The Law Commission’s Scoping Project

Financial Remedies: The Law Commission’s Scoping Project

On 4 April 2023, the Law Commission announced that it would be undertaking a project to review the current law governing financial remedies on divorce or dissolution of civil partnership.[[1]] The purpose of the project is to determine whether there are problems with the current law that require reform,

Beth Payne

Beth Payne is a pupil at QEB. Prior to this, she worked at the Law Commission as a research assistant, on the project team for the financial remedies on divorce scoping project.