Monique Simone Fremder

Monique Simone Fremder

Monique Simone Fremder is an Inner Temple Scholar, awarded a Benefactor, Exhibition and Duke of Edinburgh Scholarships to complete the Bar Training Co...

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ABC v XYZ (Financial Remedies: Release from Undertakings and Variation of Periodical Payments Order) [2025] EWFC 370 (B)

DJ Maddison. Application by H to be released from undertakings and vary a nominal maintenance order following a significant change of circumstances. Reassessment of needs resulted in substantive joint lives provision.

PMC v Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board [2025] EWCA Civ 1126

Sir Geoffrey Vos MR, Warby LJ and Whipple LJ allowed an appeal against the refusal of an anonymity order in a child's clinical negligence claim, confirming that courts retain a limited common law power to derogate from open justice where strictly necessary to protect vulnerable individuals.

Armstrong v Armstrong [2024] EWHC 2989 (Ch)

Andrew Sutcliffe KC (sitting as a judge of the High Court) upheld a proprietary estoppel claim arising from a broken promise that a son would inherit the family farm, finding that assurances had been relied upon to the claimant's detriment over 35 years.

Re HMP [2025] EWCA Civ 824

Carr LCJ, King LJ and Warby LJ. The Court of Appeal allowed an appeal against a disclosure order in concluded care proceedings, confirming that the open justice principle did not extend to media applications unconnected to the court's decision-making in the case.

CC v UU [2025] EWFC 214

Peel J. Application by W for an LSPO following final financial remedy order dismissed due to lack of jurisdiction under s 22ZA MCA 1973 after a clean break.

M v B [2025] EWFC 182

Judgment date: 25 June 2025 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2025/182 Sir Jonathan Cohen (sitting as a judge of the High Court). Financial remedy proceedings considering the court’s power to strike out applications under FPR 4.4, having regard to the effect of FPR 9.9A. The