Cases
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Xanthopoulos v Rakshina [2022] EWFC 3012 April 2022
Mostyn J.Comprehensive survey of law on anonymisation of judgments; [74]–[142]. Correct question is 'Why is it in the public interest that the parties should be anonymous?' rather than 'Why is it in the public interest that the parties should be named?'…
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- Release from Undertakings
- Publicity and Confidentiality
- Costs
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act
- Legal Services Payment Orders
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Koukash v Koukash [2022] EWHC 1001 (Fam)11 April 2022
Cohen J. Appeal from decision of HHJ Greensmith on quantification of lump sum, which had been based on privileged FDR documents.The first instance judge had to determine what amount of lump sum was to be paid by H to W. Both H and W had on and off legal r…
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- Privilege
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Enal v Singh & Ors (Trinidad and Tobago) [2022] UKPC 1311 April 2022
Lords Briggs, Kitchin and Hamblen, Lady Rose, and Sir Nicholas Patten.On appeal to the Privy Council from the CA of Trinidad and Tobago. Mr Maharaj, the father of R and S, paid for a parcel of commercial properties which he placed in the name of R and S u…
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- TLATA Applications
- Role of Appellate Court
- Presumption of Advancement
- Resulting Trusts
- Appeals
- Undue Influence
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Ali v Khatib & Ors [2022] EWCA Civ 4818 April 2022
Asplin, Stuart-Smith and Andrews LJJ.Multigenerational family home. Mrs Bibi lived in her home with one of her sons and his family (the respondents) and in a 2003 will left the home to them. Some years after her death, this will was successfully challenge…
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- TLATA Applications
- Occupation Rent
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Traharne v Limb [2022] EWFC 2731 March 2022
Cohen J. Final hearing in W’s financial remedies application in which argument centred on a post-nuptial agreement (PNA) entered into by the parties shortly prior to separation. W argued that she had been subjected to coercive and controlling behaviour an…
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- Conduct
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- Needs
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IR v OR [2022] EWFC 2029 March 2022
Mr Justice Moor.High net worth case, judge found total net assets to be £184.6m. H had spent c.12 years as CEO, and then became Executive Chairman, of his father’s retail company which had been set up in the 1950s. Prior to marriage, H had worked in the f…
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- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Agreements
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WC v HC (Financial Remedies Agreement) (Rev1) [2022] EWFC 2222 March 2022
Peel J.W’s financial remedy application resulted in a needs-based award of £7.45m net (c.60%). H was from a very wealthy family, and the parties’ lifestyle had been funded by H’s father via annual gifts which had ceased since the divorce proceedings. A po…
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- Agreements
- Efficient Conduct
- Prospective Inheritance
- Needs
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Hudson v Hathway [2022] EWHC 631 (QB)21 March 2022
Kerr J.Unmarried couple with family home in joint names. On separation, they agreed respondent would retain house and savings and forsake interest in claimant’s pension and shares (even though unmarried). Thereafter the respondent paid the interest-…
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- TLATA Applications
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Simon v Simon & Level (Joinder) (Rev1) [2022] EWFC 2921 March 2022
Nicholas Cusworth QC. Convoluted procedural history in which a consent order was sealed by the court without knowledge of other relevant applications, and W received no liquid capital capable of being used to repay her litigation funder. Funder therefore…
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- Litigation Funding
- Joinder of Third Parties
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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Re A (Schedule 1, Overspend, Costs Clawback) [2022] EWFC 2121 March 2022
Editor's note: this judgment has been removed from Bailii, possibly because of concerns about jigsaw identification.Recorder Chandler QC.Schedule 1 proceedings in which M sought that F clear all her liabilities and provide additional periodical payments a…
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- Costs
- Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
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