Potanina v Potanin (No 2) [2025] EWCA Civ 1136
Moylan, Falk and Cobb LJJ. The Wife’s appeal from the order made by Cohen J on 8 November 2019, in proceedings under Part III of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984.
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‘The beleaguered Judge looked from farming case to financial remedy case, and from financial remedy case to farming case, and from farming case to financial remedy case again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.’
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Introduction
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Introduction
This blog piece has been timed to coincide with the publication, on 8 October 2024, of the report by Resolution on ‘Domestic Abuse in Financial Remedy Proceedings’. This groundbreaking report delves into the interplay between domestic abuse and the treatment of finances on separation and divorce/dissolution (hereinafter ‘divorce’
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Introduction
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Potanina (Respondent) v Potanin (Appellant) [2024] UKSC 3
Judgment date: 31 January 2024
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/uksc/2024/3
Background
Part III of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (the 1984 Act) gives the courts in England and Wales power to grant financial remedies after an overseas divorce. Before granting such a remedy, the court