
Cases
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Ralph v Given [2022] EWHC 2395 (KB)23 September 2022
Freedman J. Claimant’s application for summary judgment in relation to application to deliver up an Aston Martin DBX and a Range Rover Sport or damages for conversion. C argued these were gifts. The claimant (C) and defendant (D) were engaged, but separat…
- Cases
- Chattels
- Gifts
- Cohabitation
- Summary Judgment
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XO v YO & Anor [2022] EWFC 11422 September 2022
HHJ Hess. Financial remedies decision concerning whether English court had jurisdiction to determine a claim in respect of immovable property situated outside England where the claim is based on equity; and can adverse inferences be drawn from a party’s f…
- Cases
- Foreign Assets
- Disclosure
- Jurisdiction
- Conduct
- Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Trusts and Their Recognition
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AB v CD [2022] EWFC 19816 September 2022
HHJ Shelton. Hearing on 14–15 July 2022. Cross-applications to vary global periodical payment order for a child aged 19 who is severely disabled and a spousal maintenance order.
- Cases
- Global Maintenance Orders
- Child Periodical Payments For Over 18s
- Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
- Child Maintenance
- Variation Applications
- Needs
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Pierburg v Pierburg [2022] EWHC 2701 (Fam)9 September 2022
Facts Moor J (‘the judge’) dealt with an application made by Clarissa Gisela Pierburg (‘W’) for financial provision after an overseas divorce pursuant to Part III of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984. The respondent was Jurgen Pierburg (‘H’)…
- Cases
- Repudiation
- Agreements
- Jurisdiction
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act
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SA v FA [2022] EWFC 1159 September 2022
HHJ Hess. Judgment concerning divorce proceedings, domicile and the most appropriate forum.The parties met and married in England; the W was originally from South Africa. They had moved to the UAE in 2008 and remained there due to the H’s job; both appear…
- Cases
- divorce
- Jurisdiction
- Domicile
- Forum
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X v Y [2022] EWFC 9515 August 2022
HHJ Hess. Financial remedy judgment in which the wife’s capital claims were adjourned for a decade in view of dishonest fabrication of bank statements by H and uncertainty as to assets. Judgment published ‘to draw wider attention to the abilit…
- Cases
- Adjourned Capital Claim
- Disclosure
- Conduct
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Goodyear v Goodyear (Deceased) [2022] EWFC 9612 August 2022
HHJ Farquhar. Application by the husband to set aside a pension sharing order (‘PSO’) following the death of the wife. The application was opposed by the executor’s of the wife’s estate. The fundamental issue was whether the death…
- Cases
- Pensions on Divorce
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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AW v AH [2022] EWFC 19511 August 2022
Deputy District Judge Michael Horton QC. The reserved judgment at a final hearing for financial relief under Part III of the 1984 Act. Short marriage of 3 years including cohabitation, one child of the family aged 3.5 living with the wife (AW) in England.…
- Cases
- Publicity and Confidentiality
- Jurisdiction
- Divorce Jurisdiction Post-Brexit
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act
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AB v CD [2022] EWFC 11629 July 2022
Roberts J (‘the judge’) dealt with an application to set aside a consent order made in financial remedy proceedings, and a responding application to strike out or summarily dismiss H’s application. The parties were both independently wealthy and had a sho…
- Cases
- Financial Remedies Court (FRC)
- Striking Out Applications
- Valuation of Shares
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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Barclay v Barclay [2022] EWHC 2026 (Fam)28 July 2022
Cohen J. Three judgment summonses brought by Lady Hiroko Barclay against former husband Sir Frederick Barclay for admitted breaches of (1) two £50m lump sum financial remedy orders from 2021, (2) a legal services payment order, and (3) arrears of maintena…
- Cases
- Committal Applications and Judgment Summonses
- Enforcement