Elizabeth Bowden

Elizabeth Bowden

Elizabeth Bowden is a barrister at College Chambers. She specialises in financial remedies, including TOLATA matters. Elizabeth particularly enjoys ca...

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TO v GA (Financial Remedies: Deferred Sale) [2024] EWFC 405 (B)

Judgment date: 12 November 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/405 Deputy District Judge Harrop publishes a judgment as a good example of the decisions district judges have to make in ‘everyday’ financial remedy cases. Summary W early 40s, employed FT, but limited earning capacity due to

Monisha Mahtani v Vivek Hariram Mahtani [2025] EWFC 35

Judgment date: 16 January 2025 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2025/35 James Ewins KC, sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge. A difficult case where the respondent husband failed to attend any hearing or make any disclosure. All the court could do was draw inferences to prevent a

T v T and Others (Disregard for Procedural Rules, Adjournment) [2025] EWFC 14 (B)

Judgment date: 29 January 2025 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2025/14 Recorder Chandler KC was forced to adjourn a three-day hearing in the face of W’s legal aid solicitors failing to comply with the Family Court’s procedures. The judge made it clear that where a

On v On [2024] EWFC 379

Judgment date: 11 December 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/379 HHJ Booth (now retired), sitting as a High Court judge, considered whether the duty of full and frank disclosure ends at the arbitration hearing, the judgment, and also whether the arbitral award should be treated as a

WX v HX [2023] EWFC 279 (B)

Judgment date: 21 December 2023 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2023/279 Mr Recorder Day’s judgment in a case involving complex procedural history, intervenors, non-disclosure and a ‘fragile’ business valuation. Of note is Recorder Day’s inclusion of his earlier decision to refuse a Hadkinson order. Recorder

B v B [2024] EWFC 311 (B)

Judgment date: 13 August 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/311 District Judge Dinan-Hayward significantly departed from equality in the wife’s favour, where the applicant husband did not attend the final hearing, failed to engage with his own application and failed to undertake proper disclosure. Background

LI v FT (Maintenance Pending Suit) [2024] EWFC 342 (B)

Judgment date: 19 July 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/342 DDJ Harrop. Decision on costs after an MPS application with no clear winner. The court was dismayed by what had been incurred in legal fees contesting the MPS application. W incurred £27,000 in a little