Cases
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Helliwell v Entwistle [2024] EWHC 740 (Fam)16 February 2024
Francis J. A ‘paradigm case’ of how not to conduct litigation in a short childless marriage.
- Cases
- Agreements
- Short Marriage
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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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ED v OF [2024] EWFC 2979 September 2024
Cusworth J. Financial remedy proceedings relating to the valuation and division of a high-value music catalogue as a key matrimonial asset.
- Cases
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Companies
- Tax
- Valuations
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JL v NN [2024] EWHC 148925 April 2024
Williams J allowed W’s appeal on the basis that the judge failed to explicitly evaluate critical evidence and reach clear conclusions. Williams J confirmed that the civil standard of proof for fraud and dishonesty in the Financial Remedies Court is subject to the same balance of probabilities standard as any other factual issue, even if fraud issues should not be pleaded without an evidential basis.
- Cases
- Dishonesty
- Burden Of Proof
- Housing Need
- Fraud
- Appeals
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Abigail Laura Williams v Andrew John Williams [2024] EWFC 2756 August 2024
Final order of Moor J in financial remedy proceedings involving a husband who had continually breached court orders, failed to attend hearings, and provided unreliable and ‘demonstrably untrue’ evidence.
- Cases
- Non-Disclosure
- Adverse Inferences
- Freezing Injunctions
- Conduct
- Legal Services Payment Orders
- Disclosure from Third Parties
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Mainwaring v Bailey [2024] EWHC 2614 (Fam)16 October 2024
Henke J ordered the husband to pay the wife’s costs assessed on a standard basis following his ‘hopeless appeal’. In response to the husband’s plea that he should be treated as a litigant-in-person and he did not understand the Family Procedure Rules, Henke J was emphatic that litigants in person are expected to comply with the procedural rules as much as represented parties.
- Cases
- Costs
- Appeals
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FC v WC [2024] EWFC 29121 October 2024
HHJ Vincent sitting as a s 9 Deputy High Court Judge. The parties entered a French form of civil partnership when living in France. After returning to live in England in 2022, they were informed that their dissolution was not capable of recognition under s 235(1) CPA 2004 as at the commencement of their dissolution neither party to the dissolution was a French national and was not resident or domiciled in France.
- Cases
- Experts
- Civil Partnerships
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Lloyd Dorian Williams v Gerwyn Lloyd Williams & Ors [2024] EWCA Civ 421 February 2024
King, Asplin, and Nugee LJJ. Family farm. No dispute that applicant/appellant and his parents acquired the property on trust for themselves as equal co-owners. Absent express declaration, did they hold as joint tenants or tenants in common?
- Cases
- TLATA Applications
- Survivorship (Right Of)
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HJB v WPB [2024] EWFC 18710 July 2024
HHJ Vincent. Preliminary hearing to determine whether parties should be held to a separation agreement. Agreement found to be ‘presumptively dispositive’. An agreement will not be unpicked merely because a business has thereafter performed well.
- Cases
- Disclosure
- Agreements
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V v V (Financial Remedy Hearing) [2024] EWFC 255 (B)6 September 2024
HHJ Willans. Three-day final financial remedy hearing involving the computation of the assets available for distribution including properties in India.
- Cases
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Modest Asset Cases
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