Cases
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Standish v Standish [2025] UKSC 262 July 2025
Lord Burrows and Lord Stephens (with whom Lord Reed, Lord Lloyd-Jones and Lady Simler agree). The Supreme Court unanimously dismissed W’s appeal, upheld the Court of Appeal’s decision, and clarified application of the sharing principle and matrimonialisation.
- Cases
- Sharing Principle
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
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M v B [2025] EWFC 18225 June 2025
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.
- Cases
- 'Thwaite Jurisdiction'
- Executory Orders
- Striking Out Applications
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MNV v CNV [2025] EWFC 176 (B)19 June 2025
DDJ Bradshaw. Drastic change in personal circumstances results in add-back in small money case.
- Cases
- Liabilities
- Housing Need
- Small Money
- Mortgage Capacity
- Costs
- Soft Loans
- Needs
- Earning Capacity
- Add-Backs
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Tickle v The Father & Ors [2025] EWFC 1609 June 2025
Henke J. Procedural judgment in children proceedings reaffirming legal protections for journalistic sources and highlighting the limits of transparency in the family courts.
- Cases
- Transparency
- Publicity and Confidentiality
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A Local Authority v X (Attendance of Experts) [2025] EWFC 1373 June 2025
MacDonald J gave guidance on the question of when and how the court is to exercise its case management power to enable an expert to attend a hearing to give oral evidence under FPR 25.9(2). The question is whether it is ‘necessary in the interests of justice’ for the expert to do so – there is no gloss of exceptionality, and each case must be determined on its own facts.
- Cases
- Experts
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DSD v MJW (Costs of MPS) [2025] EWFC 119 (B)24 April 2025
DDJ David Hodson. Proportionality and maintenance pending suit (MPS), a cautionary tale. In this case the DDJ concluded that the game was very much not worth the candle, and the application turned out to be very costly for the applicant wife.
- Cases
- Interim Relief
- Maintenance Pending Suit
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VTY v GDB [2025] EWFC 110 (B)24 April 2025
Recorder Taylor. Final hearing in a financial remedy application which concerned issues of non-disclosure and allegations of asset concealment in different countries. The matter also involved foreign litigation which appeared to undermine the existing proceedings in this jurisdiction. The parties married in 1999 and have two adult children and one aged 16. The family structure was a traditional one with H being the breadwinner and W the homemaker.
- Cases
- Foreign Assets
- Non-Disclosure
- Chattels
- Adverse Inferences
- School Fees
- Fraud
- Costs
- Duxbury Capitalisation
- Debts
- Foreign Judgments
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Kathryn Elizabeth Norman v Michael Ian Norman [2025] EWFC 107 (B)17 April 2025
District Judge Veal. Alleged material non-disclosure, W’s totally without merit application issued in October 2024 after seven rounds of litigation including W’s D50K application, settled by agreement, made when she knew about H’s alleged non-disclosure. W ordered to pay costs on indemnity basis. Warning given regarding the use of websites leading to jigsaw identification and thereby breaching FPR 9.46(3).
- Cases
- Disclosure
- Costs
- Consent Orders
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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Galbraith-Marten v De Renee (Extension of Extended Civil Restraint Order) [2025] EWFC 9615 April 2025
Cobb J. Application for an extension of an extended civil restraint order and an application for further financial orders within long-running financial remedy proceedings.
- Cases
- Civil Restraint Orders
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A v B [2025] EWFC 12714 April 2025
Trowell J. Application for a lump sum for litigation costs under Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989 in relation to proceedings under s 8 of the Children Act 1989.
- Cases
- Costs
- Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
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