
Cases
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BF v LE [2023] EWHC 2009 (Fam)31 July 2023
Mrs Justice Lieven. Appeal on the grounds (1) W lacked mental capacity at the final hearing on 9 September 2019 before DJ Parry and (2) a lack of participation directions and special measures. W suffered mental health issues and had alleged H had been a p…
- Cases
- Special Measures
- Appeals
- Participatory Directions
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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Glaser and Anor v Atay [2023] EWHC 2539 (KB)25 July 2023
Did the Consumer Rights Act apply to public access barristers’ fees?
- Cases
- Direct Access
- Fees
- Consumer Rights Act 2015
- Quantum Meruit
- Public Access
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J v A [2023] EWFC 13221 July 2023
H's application for a stay of the English divorce proceedings commenced by W, in favour of his competing Nigerian divorce petition.
- Cases
- Forum Conveniens
- divorce
- Jurisdiction
- Domicile
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AFW v RFH [2023] EWFC 11920 July 2023
Recorder Laura Moys. Enforcement of order for sale and PSO.
- Cases
- Chattels
- Sale of Property
- Anonymity and Transparency
- Variation of an Order
- Delay
- Costs
- Variation Applications
- Valuations
- Enforcement
- Non-Compliance
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DT v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (CSM) [2023] UKUT 175 (AAC)17 July 2023
Deputy Upper Tribunal Judge Rowland. Appeal against decision of First-tier Tribunal regarding the correct income figure upon which to base a Child Maintenance calculation. Appeal allowed.
- Cases
- Agreements
- Appeals
- Child Support
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JD v RMD [2023] EWFC 12514 July 2023
DDJ Hodson. A financial remedy application where the debts and costs exceeded the assets.
- Cases
- Costs
- Debts
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H v W [2023] EWFC 12014 July 2023
HHJ Reardon KC. This case concerns cross-applications regarding a final financial remedy order made in May 2021 (the 2021 order) by Recorder Anderson. This included an application by H for a further lump sum to compensate him for losses due to W’s a…
- Cases
- 'Thwaite Jurisdiction'
- Conduct
- Delay
- Costs
- Striking Out Applications
- Cross-Applications
- Compensation Principle
- Enforcement
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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Hyslop v Hyslop 2DS 2022/13 & 2DS 2023/0312 July 2023
Judge of Appeal Cross KC, Acting Deemster Horton KC, and Deemster Corlett. Michael Horton KC, one of three Deemsters sitting in the Staff of Government Division in the Isle of Man High Court (‘appeal court’), grapples with an appeal regarding an impossible PSO where the intended recipient of the pension benefits has remarried. The appeal court also addressed the Isle of Man/England and Wales pension lacuna, mutual mistake, the remarriage trap, and the lower court's wrongful declaration of trust to remedy the impossible PSO.
- Cases
- Pensions on Divorce
- Appeals
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
- Trusts
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McLean v Mclean & Ors [2023] EWHC 1735 (Fam)10 July 2023
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.
- Cases
- Adverse Inferences
- Disclosure
- Companies
- Applications To Adjourn
- Appeals
- Joinder of Third Parties
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AS v RS [2023] EWFC 283 (B)8 July 2023
District Judge Troy. Application by W for leave to bring a claim pursuant to Part III of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984.
- Cases
- Foreign Assets
- Part III
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act