Polly Morgan | Case Editor

Polly Morgan | Case Editor

Polly Morgan is the sole author of the textbook Morgan's Family Law (2nd edn, Oxford University Press 2024) as well as the author of a number of Law...

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Financial Remedies Case Round-Up (Mid-September 2023 to mid-January 2024)

Financial Remedies Case Round-Up (Mid-September 2023 to mid-January 2024)

Post-separation accrual The judgments published within the autumn period fall sharply at each end of the spectrum of wealth. A number of cases involving significant assets have involved arguments around post-separation accrual, perhaps trickling through as a result of Moor J’s decision in DR v UG [2023] EWFC 68.

A Crib Sheet for those New to Financial Remedies Practice

A Crib Sheet for those New to Financial Remedies Practice

By way of an extract from Polly Morgan’s Family Law (OUP, 2nd edn, 2024), we present an aide memoire of the relevant principles and practicalities for the new financial remedies practitioner. Summary of the principles and practicalities (1) Consider ‘all the circumstances of the case’: s 25(1). (2)

HO v TL (Costs) [2023] EWFC 216

Judgment date: 01 December 2023 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2023/216 Peel J. Costs judgment in relation to the FR proceedings which are summarised here. Each party sought costs against the other. Starting point was each should pay their own costs. Peel J refers to his summary of

GA v EL [2023] EWFC 206

Judgment date: 27 November 2023 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2023/206.html Stephen Trowell KC as deputy High Court judge. Final hearing where the sole issue was how to divide proceeds of sale of a business. An earlier Daniels v Walker application in this case is

Richard Winter & Anor v Philip Winter & Anor [2023] EWHC 2393 (Ch)

Judgment date: 29 September 2023 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/ch/2023/2393 Zacaroli J. Claimants were two brothers, R and A, whose suit was against third brother, P, as executor of their father Albert’s estate, to challenge Albert’s 2015 Will, and the solicitors who drafted the

Financial Remedies Case Round-Up (Mid-April to mid-September 2023)

Financial Remedies Case Round-Up (Mid-April to mid-September 2023)

A spate of proprietary estoppel cases In the previous issue, I wrote about the increasing number of reported nuptial agreement cases. In the time period covered by this issue, the tendency has been towards proprietary estoppel cases. Certainly, published judgments can appear rather like buses, several at once and then