Cases
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MG v AR [2021] EWHC 3133 (Fam)16 November 2021
Mostyn J.In the first reported judgment on security for costs since the advent of the FPR, Mostyn J gives a helpful review of the applicable principles in family cases. Unlike in civil case law, he considers that the rarity of costs orders requires the co…
- Cases
- Security for costs
- Costs
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T v T (Variation of a Pension Sharing Order and Underfunded Schemes) [2021] EWFC B6710 November 2021
https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2021/B67.html
- Cases
- Pensions on Divorce
- Variation Applications
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A v M [2021] EWFC 895 November 2021
Mostyn J.H worked in private equity and had set up two funds of his own, W was the beneficiary of valuable trust funds. Mostyn J set out a detailed method for dealing with H’s carried interest (in his view a hybrid resource, neither exclusively return on…
- Cases
- Sharing Principle
- Publicity and Confidentiality
- Clean Breaks and Term Maintenance
- Costs
- Add-Backs
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L v L [2021] EWFC B835 November 2021
HHJ Booth.Equal sharing of a combined c.£24m interest in a business acquired from H’s father prior to the 19-year marriage held to apply. H’s shareholding was restructured 3 years prior to separation. The character of this restructuring, which had provide…
- Cases
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Companies
- Costs
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E v B (Interim Maintenance Inaccurate Time Estimate) [2021] EWFC B904 November 2021
Recorder Chandler.W’s application for interim maintenance and costs allowance in proceedings under Part III. Robust assumptions were made about H’s ability to pay, and W was awarded £3,000 pcm interim maintenance. W’s application for a costs allowance was…
- Cases
- Interim Relief
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act
- Case Management
- First Appointments
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BT v CU [2021] EWFC 871 November 2021
https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2021/87.html
- Cases
- Publicity and Confidentiality
- Variation Applications
- Executory Orders
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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BT v CU [2021] EWFC 871 November 2021
H’s application to set aside financial remedy order on basis that the downturn in his company’s value during the covid-19 pandemic constituted a Barder event (Barder v Barder [1988] AC 20). In order to succeed, H had to meet four conditions set out in Bar…
- Cases
- Publicity and Confidentiality
- 'Thwaite Jurisdiction'
- Executory Orders
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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Cathcart v Owens [2021] EWFC 861 November 2021
https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2021/86.html
- Cases
- Disclosure
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BM [2021] EWCA Civ 137120 September 2021
https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2021/1371.html
- Cases
- Appeals
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W v H (Financial Remedies: Pensions) [2021] EWFC 6314 September 2021
Recorder Salter.Modest assets. Case involved pensions, third-party property, excessive litigation costs and jurisdiction of the court to make an order for child maintenance where the care of a child was shared equally between the parties, and thus there w…
- Cases
- Pensions on Divorce
- Jurisdiction
- Cohabitation
- Child Maintenance
- Costs