Sophia Paraskeva

Sophia Paraskeva

Sophia Paraskeva is a barrister at 1 Hare Court and accepts instructions in all areas of private family law, including financial remedies, private chi...

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Second Six at the Financial Remedies Bar – A Survival Guide

Second Six at the Financial Remedies Bar – A Survival Guide

There is no perfect way to approach being ‘on your feet’ and completing your second six. Your first day in court will inevitably be one of the most exciting but equally terrifying moments of your career. However, through this article, we hope to share our ten top tips: those things

RN v TT [2024] EWFC 264 (B)

Judgment date: 14 June 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/264 HHJ Hess. Facts W (51) and H (49) cohabited in a flat in W’s sole name from late 2003 and married in 2004. W was a GP. H was an occasional painter and decorator but

TI v LI [2024] EWFC 163 (B)

Judgment date: 21 June 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/163 Recorder Allen KC. Recognition of Pakistani divorce. Facts W was a dual UK/Pakistani national living in London. H was a Pakistani national living in Pakistan. The parties married in Pakistan on 22 June 2012. W

Nazir & Nazir v Begum [2024] EWHC 378 (KB)

Judgment date: 21 February 2024 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/KB/2024/378.html Freedman J. A person is not to be regarded as being in adverse possession of an estate when the estate is subject to a trust: see Schedule 6, paragraph 12, to the Land Registration

Wife v Husband [2023] EWFC 273 (B)

Judgment date: 06 June 2023 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2023/273.html DJ Masters. Small money case heard by a district judge. Final hearing where H dissipated inheritance received during the marriage. Facts H (49) and W (55). The parties had one son (20). Tragically, the

AXA v BYB (QLR: Financial Remedies) [2023] EWFC 251 (B)

Judgment date: 18 December 2023 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2023/251.html Recorder Rhys Taylor. Facts W (36) and H (41) married in 2017 and separated in 2022. The parties had one child, a daughter, aged 3. Aside from the FMH which had equity of £100,