Liam Kelly

Liam Kelly

Liam Kelly is a barrister at Deans Court Chambers, Manchester, and 5SAH, London, practising exclusively in private family law, with an emphasis on fin...

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The Summary of the Summaries (Summer 2025)

The Summary of the Summaries (Summer 2025)

FI v DO [2024] EWFC 384 (B) (District Judge Crisp) Final hearing in financial remedy case involving which party should keep the family dog, a golden retriever puppy, ‘N’. Keywords: chattels XY v XX [2024] EWFC 387 (B) (HHJ Hess) Application brought by H to set aside on the basis

The Summary of the Summaries (Spring 2025)

The Summary of the Summaries (Spring 2025)

WW v XX [2024] EWFC 330 (B) (HHJ Hess) Final hearing involving valuation and matrimonial nature of business. Keywords: matrimonial and non-matrimonial property; experts; companies; valuations Mainwaring v Bailey [2024] EWHC 2614 (Fam) (Henke J) Henke J ordered the husband to pay the wife’s costs assessed on a standard

The Summary of the Summaries (Winter 2024)

The Summary of the Summaries (Winter 2024)

TY v XA [2024] EWFC 96 (Moor J) Ripples from the decision in Potanin v Potanina [2024] UKSC 3. Moor J reiterated that Potanin had not changed the basic test for the grant of leave to apply for financial relief under Part III MFPA 1984, which should from now on

AB v BA [2024] EWHC 1179 (Fam)

Judgment date: 05 March 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2024/1179 Cusworth J. Appeals allowed against instalment quantum for payment of costs and the requirement for permission to enforce further costs orders. Financial remedy proceedings concluded in summer 2019 with joint lives maintenance. Two subsequent costs orders

The Summary of the Summaries (Summer 2024)

The Summary of the Summaries (Summer 2024)

BR v BR [2024] EWFC 11 (Peel J) When should a single joint expert (SJE) be instructed rather than two or more separately instructed experts in financial remedy proceedings? The default position is that, wherever possible, an SJE should be directed rather than giving permission for two or more experts

Hersman v De Verchere [2024] EWHC 905 (Fam)

Judgment date: 19 April 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2024/905 Moor J. Enforcement proceedings following W’s failure to transfer a ski chalet to H. W previously committed to three months’ imprisonment but has not returned to the UK. H awarded £2.3m on account of

D v D [2024] EWFC 76

Judgment date: 12 March 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/76 HHJ Booth, sitting as a judge of the High Court: 25:75 division in favour of H following breakdown of second marriage and H’s substantial assets. Court considered W’s needs should be generously interpreted to