Final Reflections on Standish: Was It All Worthwhile?

If asked, Mr Standish may say that three rounds of litigation, with another to follow, were worth it – Mrs Standish, perhaps not. But for lawyers, with many questions left unanswered, and a feeling that the opportunity to settle the law on matrimonialisation with clarity and certainty has passed us by, it may not have been worthwhile.

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• Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
• Matrimonialisation

• Calum Smith

!09/07/2025 10:15

PN v SA [2025] EWFC 14123 May 2025

Cobb J. Third-largest financial remedy case in the jurisdiction’s history. The judge set aside a separation agreement entered into by W under significant emotional and psychological pressure.

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• Agreements
• Coercive Control
• Undue Influence

• Caitlin McHale

PZ v ZD (Financial Remedies: Needs: Adverse Inferences: Taking of Evidence from Outside the Jurisdiction) [2025] EWFC 171 (B)20 March 2025

Judgment by DDJ G Evans in a modest asset case involving significant non-disclosure and the taking of evidence from a respondent in a non-Hague Convention jurisdiction (here, Pakistan).

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• Indemnity Against Unknown Liabilities
• Adverse Inferences
• Attendance From Outside The Jurisdiction
• Debts
• Needs

• Alex Byrne

The Valediction of Sir Nicholas Mostyn: The Abdication of the Monarch of the Mountainous Principality of Court 50

On 4 October 2023 in his court, Court 50 of the Royal Court of Justice, surrounded by family, friends, colleagues (and the Lord and Lady Justices from the ‘dark side’) the financial remedy world said farewell to Sir Nicholas Mostyn, and he to us.

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!16/10/2023 09:53

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…

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• Security for costs
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• Alexandra Hampton | Assistant Case Editor