
Cases: Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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Kathryn Elizabeth Norman v Michael Ian Norman [2025] EWFC 107 (B)17 April 2025
District Judge Veal. Alleged material non-disclosure, W’s totally without merit application issued in October 2024 after seven rounds of litigation including W’s D50K application, settled by agreement, made when she knew about H’s alleged non-disclosure. W ordered to pay costs on indemnity basis. Warning given regarding the use of websites leading to jigsaw identification and thereby breaching FPR 9.46(3).
- Cases
- Disclosure
- Costs
- Consent Orders
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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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)
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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)
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Sandeep Kumar Chugh v Latika Chugh [2025] EWFC 424 March 2025
Nicholas Allen KC (sitting as a deputy High Court judge). Final hearing concerning H’s application for recognition of divorce proceedings brought by H in India, and H’s challenge to the jurisdictional basis of divorce proceedings brought in the UK by W.
- Cases
- Family Law Act 1986
- Jurisdiction
- Stay Pending Resolution of Overseas Proceedings
- Stay of Proceedings
- Non-Recognition of Overseas Divorce
- International Enforcement
- Recognition of Indian Divorce
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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XY v XX [2024] EWFC 387 (B)8 November 2024
HHJ Hess. Application brought by H to set aside on the basis of a ‘mutual mistake’ of the parties which presented the court with inaccurate computational figures.
- Cases
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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A v M (No 3) [2024] EWFC 29925 October 2024
Cohen J. Application by H to strike out W’s application to set aside a final order in financial remedies proceedings on the ground of H’s misrepresentation.
- Cases
- Disclosure
- Conduct
- Striking Out Applications
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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Simon v (1) Simon (2) Integro Funding Limited (‘Level’) [2024] EWFC 1602 July 2024
Peel J. The last instalment in the *Simon v Simon & Level* family court litigation. Level’s civil claim is yet to be determined. Peel J found that the family court cannot make a distributive order upon application of an intervenor to require one party to pay the other party such sum as the third-party intervenor says it is entitled to.
- Cases
- Litigation Funding
- Joinder of Third Parties
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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Re RA (Appeal: Validity of a Marriage: Finding of Fact) [2024] EWHC 1144 (Fam)15 May 2024
Henke J. Successful appeal of a fact-finding, despite such an appeal being ‘notoriously difficult’.
- Cases
- Validity of marriage
- Appeals
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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Williams v Williams [2024] EWHC 733 (Fam)10 April 2024
Sir Andrew McFarlane P. Erroneous application for a final order of divorce made by the solicitors for the applicant wife, in absence of the instruction or authority of their client.
- Cases
- Delay
- Decree Nisi/Decree Final
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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L v O [2024] EWFC 65 February 2024
Cobb J. Interlocutory applications prior to substantive Barder hearing. Applications for stay and Hadkinson order dismissed. Application for security of costs granted owing to residence outside the jurisdiction.
- Cases
- Foreign Assets
- Hadkinson Orders
- Agreements
- Security for costs
- Costs
- Variation Applications
- International Enforcement
- Enforcement
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)