Liam Kelly (Deans Court Chambers)

Liam Kelly (Deans Court Chambers)

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

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The Summary of the Summaries (Summer 2026)

[2026] 2 FRJ 175. Summaries of cases including Kars v Brown & Ors [2026] EWHC 31 (Fam), MM v FF (Maintenance: Scope of EU Withdrawal Agreement) [2026] EWFC 1, LP v MP [2026] EWFC 36 and LP v MP [2026] EWFC 36.

The Summary of the Summaries (Spring 2026)

[2026] 1 FRJ 79. Summaries of cases including AT v NB (No 2) [2025] EWFC 287 (B), Re H [2025] EWHC 2361 (Fam), G v N [2025] EWFC 286 (B), and KU v BI [2025] EWFC 296 (B).

The Summary of the Summaries (Winter 2025)

Liam Kelly rounds up cases recently summarised on the FRJ website, including CA v UK, THR v Wat and JQ v IQ.

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