
Cases
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TM v AM [2023] EWFC 2478 November 2023
H’s application to set aside a consent order entered into on 18 November 2021. The main issue for determination was whether W had concealed the ownership of a valuable diamond and thus obtained H’s consent to the order through material non-disclosure/fraud.
- Cases
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Disclosure from Third Parties
- Consent Orders
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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AT v BT [2023] EWHC 3531 (Fam)6 November 2023
Final hearing in a financial remedy application in which issues included undue pressure reducing weight of PNA, compensation, and non-matrimonial assets.
- Cases
- Sharing Principle
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Agreements
- Experts
- Tax
- Compensation Principle
- Valuations
- Trusts
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AS v RS (Costs: Clean Sheet/General Rule) [2023] EWFC 284 (B)6 November 2023
District Judge Troy. Costs in respect of an application for leave pursuant to s 13 Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 are subject to ‘Clean Sheet’ rules.
- Cases
- Costs
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act
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GA v EL [2023] EWFC 18731 October 2023
Peel J. Daniels v Walker application made by the Wife ('W') at a Pre-Trial Review in financial remedy proceedings.
- Cases
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Post-Separation Accrual
- Daniels v Walker Application
- Experts
- Business Assets
- Efficient Conduct
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Y v Z [2023] EWFC 20526 October 2023
HHJ Hess. H and W divorced in 2013 following a 14-year marriage. H had maintained a successful career working in business finance.
- Cases
- Costs
- Variation Applications
- Capacity
- Litigation Friend
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SS v ES [2023] EWFC 17713 October 2023
Sir Jonathan Cohen. W’s application for financial remedy which included aspects of pre-marital property, post-separation accrual and Wells sharing.
- Cases
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Post-Separation Accrual
- Duration of the Marriage
- Wells Sharing
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Williams v Williams [2023] EWHC 3098 (Fam)13 October 2023
Moor J. Refusal of a Hadkinson order during substantive proceedings. LSPO granted for proceedings and for overseas litigation.
- Cases
- Hadkinson Orders
- Overseas Assets
- Conduct
- Legal Services Payment Orders
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GW v GH [2023] EWFC 298 (B)12 October 2023
District Judge Napier held that the best interests of the children were the first but not the only consideration in MRC 1973 s 25. The CAO had not specified ‘private’ education, and the FRC should not prioritise private education to the detriment of other emotional and physical needs of the children. The judge refused to make a school fees order to ‘encourage’ the trustees to pay school fees.
- Cases
- Costs
- Trusts
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RG v TA (Appeal: Legal Services Funding Order: Schedule 1 Children Act 1989) [2023] EWHC 3155 (Fam)6 October 2023
Roberts J. Appeal from HHJ Ellis who had refused F’s application for a legal services payment order of £125,000 in relation to his s 8 and Schedule 1 applications.
- Cases
- Legal Services Payment Orders
- Efficient Conduct
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LT v ZU [2023] EWFC 1796 October 2023
HHJ Evans-Gordon. Substantive hearing following the father challenging an application by the mother to convert an arbitral award into an order of the court.
- Cases
- arbitration
- Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
- Appeals
- Needs