Rebekah Batt

Rebekah Batt

Rebekah is a junior barrister at Pump Court Chambers. Rebekah is regularly instructed in private family law proceedings and has a keen interest in fin...

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Xanthopoulos v Rakshina [2024] EWCA Civ 100

Judgment date: 08 February 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewca/civ/2024/100 Bean, King and Moylan LJJ. Costs judgment following the H’s successful appeal – judgment on appeal here, summary of the decision appealed here – during which the court considered applications for costs made by both parties and

KS v VS [2024] EWHC 278 (Fam)

Judgment date: 12 February 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2024/278 Arbuthnot J. Costs judgment following a ruling in favour of the H on his application for a stay of divorce and financial remedy proceedings in this jurisdiction in favour of proceedings in Monaco. Arbuthnot J considers

Seales v Seales (Ancillary Relief: Murder and Coercive Control as Conduct) [2023] NIMaster 6

Judgment date: 29 August 2023 https://www.bailii.org/nie/cases/NIHC/Master/2023/6.html Master Bell. NB: a judgment from the High Court in Northern Ireland. Ancillary relief application in which the W was seeking to run a ‘conduct case’ based, in part, on the H’s conviction

Barclay v Barclay [2023] EWFC 164

Judgment date: 17 August 2023 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2023/164.html Sir Jonathan Cohen. This was the fifteenth hearing arising out of the W’s three judgment summonses for the payment of £50m, £185k and £60k. The H had been ordered to pay the W

Simon v (1) Simon (2) Integro Funding Limited (‘Level’) [2023] EWCA Civ 1048

Judgment date: 15 September 2023 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewca/civ/2023/1048 King LJ, Moylan LJ and Popplewell LJ. Appeal concerning the role of a litigation lender in financial remedy proceedings. Previous hearing summarised here. The parties had entered into a consent order in 2021 which effectively deprived

McLean v Mclean & Ors [2023] EWHC 1735 (Fam)

Judgment date: 10 July 2023 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2023/1735 Roberts J. An appeal of a final order by the H and five companies of which the H was the sole or majority shareholder following a final hearing conducted in their absence. Includes consideration of materially

SS v IS [2023] EWHC 1544 (Fam)

Judgment date: 14 June 2023 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2023/1544 Roberts J. Final hearing in financial remedy proceedings with issues around spousal maintenance, offshore trusts and non-matrimonial assets. Background The parties met as students in 2003 in Russia and married in 2004. They had essentially no