Cases
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Mary-Jane Grace and Ian Douglas Grace [2025] EWFC 37 (B)10 January 2025
HHJ Farquhar. Straightforward financial remedy proceedings continued an additional 2½ years after the agreement at the FDR. Significant litigation misconduct, far beyond acceptable standards, resulting in striking delay and wasted costs orders; criticism also of conduct of W’s solicitor. The judgment provides useful guidance on anonymisation in financial remedy judgments where there is litigation misconduct.
- Cases
- Anonymity and Transparency
- Conduct
- Delay
- Costs
- Litigation Misconduct
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SM v BA (Legal Services Payment Order) [2025] EWFC 710 January 2025
Nicholas Allen KC sitting as a deputy High Court judge. Application for a legal services payment order within high net worth financial remedy proceedings.
- Cases
- Financial Remedies Court (FRC)
- Maintenance Pending Suit
- Legal Services Payment Orders
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ST v AR [2025] EWFC 49 January 2025
HHJ Vincent (sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge). Final hearing in a high-value case. Court making findings on whether H’s large inheritance had been matrimonialised, W’s entitlement to a second home, and who should be awarded the family home.
- Cases
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Needs
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RI v NG [2025] EWFC 9 (B)7 January 2025
DJ Ashworth. The parties agreed to marry in February 2024 and the wedding was scheduled to take place on 15 May 2024, but was later called off on 30 April 2024. It was the applicant’s case that the respondent had been removing various items of jewellery not yet gifted to her from his property without his knowledge or consent.
- Cases
- Chattels
- Engagement
- Married Women's Property Act 1982
- Return of Items
- Separation
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Walton v Walton [2025] EWFC 16 (B)7 January 2025
HHJ Moreton. Committal proceedings following non-compliance with court orders. The offending party was sentenced to a period of imprisonment of 28 days, suspended until the conclusion of the financial remedy proceedings.
- Cases
- Committal Applications and Judgment Summonses
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Vince v Vince [2024] EWFC 38920 December 2024
Cusworth J. A long marriage with substantial wealth, held mostly in H’s green energy business. Questions of how to treat political donations; attributing value to pre- and post-marital business efforts; and discounting the value of a business already sold.
- Cases
- Companies
- Valuations
- Add-Backs
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V v V [2024] EWFC 380 (B)19 December 2024
HHJ Booth. Appeal from a final order in a modest asset case, in which the court was tasked with balancing the needs of a party suffering from a serious disability and the needs of the primary carer of the children of the family.
- Cases
- Housing Need
- Appeals
- Mesher Orders and Deferred Charges
- Needs
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GO v YA [2024] EWFC 41113 December 2024
HHJ Hess sitting as Deputy High Court Judge. Discussion of valuing art and H’s art business, the difficulties of valuing large collections of art, and problems that can arise when experts are not cross-examined at final hearing.
- Cases
- Experts
- Valuations
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Ogbedo v Oghenerume-Taiga [2024] EWHC 3193 (Fam)12 December 2024
Sir Jonathan Cohen. This is a successful application of NO (herein referred to as ‘F’) to strike out MT’s (herein referred to as ‘M’) application for nullity pursuant to FPR 4.4 on the basis that it was an abuse of the court’s process. The court applied the test in HMRC v Kishore [2021] EWCA 1565.
- Cases
- Nullity
- Jurisdiction
- Divorce Orders
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act
- Striking Out Applications
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AJ v FJ (Appeal Against Registration) [2024] EWFC 3566 December 2024
MacDonald J. This matter concerned a successful appeal against the decision of the Maintenance Enforcement Business Centre to register a Polish interim maintenance order obtained by the respondent from the District Court in Jelenia Gora on 15 December 2022.
- Cases
- Jurisdiction
- Child Maintenance
- Appeals
- 2007 Hague Convention
- Enforcement
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