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: October to December 2022

Financial Remedies Case Round-Up: October to December 2022

A sad tale’s best for winter, so we start with October’s Supreme Court decision in Guest v Guest [2022] UKSC 27. As with other leading estoppel cases, it concerned a farm and a promise of inheritance, in reliance on which the claimant undertook decades of work on the

Re P (Service on Parent in a Refuge) [2023] EWHC 471

Judgment date: 20 March 2023 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2023/471 McFarlane P. Guidance from President of Family Division on service of legal documents on a person thought to be living in a refuge. FPR 2010 does not address this. In this case, W was in a

DP v EP (Conduct; Economic Abuse; Needs) [2023] EWFC 6

Judgment date: 10 January 2023 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2023/6 HHJ Madeleine Reardon. Finding of economic abuse and consideration of whether it met the level of s 25 conduct. Parties aged 49 (W) and 59 (H), married 1994, separated 2018, children adults. Marriage void for W’s

Hudson v Hathway [2022] EWCA Civ 1648

Judgment date: 14 December 2022 http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2022/1648.html Lewison, Andrews and Nugee LJJ. Second appeal on whether detriment remained a requirement of a constructive trust, given not mentioned in either Stack or Kernott. Unmarried couple, house in joint names. On separation, parties

A Wife v A Husband [2022] EWFC 154

Judgment date: 06 December 2022 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2022/154.html HHJ Vincent. Consent order provided for W to receive lump sum in instalments for purpose of housing herself and the children, and spousal and child periodical payments. W relocated and sought accelerated receipt. Further

Parveen v Hussain and the Queen’s Proctor [2022] EWCA Civ 1434

Judgment date: 04 November 2022 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2022/1434.html Moylan, Asplin and Stuart-Smith LJJ. W was domiciled in Pakistan when her former husband pronounced talaq while in England. The talaq decree issued by a British mosque was certified by the Pakistani authorities as

A v B [2022] EWFC 149

Judgment date: 25 May 2022 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2022/149.html HHJ Reardon. W’s application under s 55 of the Family Law Act 1986 for declaration that no valid marriage subsisted between the parties because at the time of the purported wedding, conducted by