When It’s Good, It’s Very Good… The ES2, Aged Three; a Pedant’s Perspective

On 11 January 2025, the pro forma schedule of assets known to all as the ES2 turned three years old. Just like the little girl (with the little curl, right in the middle of her forehead) of nursery rhyme fame, who one imagines may be of a similar age, when it’s good, it’s very good, and when it’s bad, it’s horrid.

• Blog

• Asset Schedules

• Andrew Day

!11/04/2025 07:00

Simon v Simon [2025] EWFC 897 April 2025

Peel J. Cost judgment from Peel J in ‘highly unusual’ financial remedy proceedings, in which a litigation loan provider successfully applied to be joined and to set aside a consent order which prevented them recovering a loan to W.

• Cases

• Conduct
• Costs
• Joinder of Third Parties
• Efficient Conduct
• Consent Orders
• Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)

• Katherine Luckhurst

Housing Particulars: Mind the Gap

The Statement on the Efficient Conduct of Financial Remedy Hearings in the Financial Remedies Court Below High Court Judge Level (11 January 2022) requires that 14 days before the First Appointment each party should use their best endeavours ‘to file with the court and serve on the other party no more than three sets of property particulars showing what their case is likely to be on housing need for themself and the other party’.

• Blog

• Housing Need

• Nicholas Allen KC

!17/04/2025 07:00

X v Y [2025] EWHC 727 (Fam)11 March 2025

Trowell J. Wife’s unsuccessful appeal against the rejection of her Barrell application to reopen a final order in a needs case following the husband’s father’s death. Trowell J agreed with the trial judge that the husband’s inheritance prospects were uncertain, and the principle of finality ought to be favoured over re-opening the case.

• Cases

• Barrell Applications
• Appeals Out Of Time
• Appeals
• Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)

• Jasmine Knapman

Culligan v Culligan [2025] EWFC 114 January 2025

MacDonald J. An equal division of the matrimonial assets following a 40-year marriage, including a Wells share in favour of W.

• Cases

• Wells Sharing
• Conduct
• Companies
• Crypto
• Valuations

• Olivia Currie