
Cases
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Bogolyubova v Bogolyubov & Joint Stock Company Commercial Bank "Privatbank" [2022] EWFC 19924 June 2022
Mr Justice Peel. Application by the Bank (i) to intervene in financial remedy proceedings, (ii) to stay those proceedings and for the court not to approve a financial consent order pending the outcome of a commercial dispute between the Bank, the husband…
- Cases
- Agreements
- Stay of Proceedings
- Joinder of Third Parties
- Consent Orders
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AW v AH [2022] EWFC 19511 August 2022
Deputy District Judge Michael Horton QC. The reserved judgment at a final hearing for financial relief under Part III of the 1984 Act. Short marriage of 3 years including cohabitation, one child of the family aged 3.5 living with the wife (AW) in England.…
- Cases
- Publicity and Confidentiality
- Jurisdiction
- Divorce Jurisdiction Post-Brexit
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act
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Gohil v Gohil and CPS [2023] EWHC 1567 (Fam)27 June 2023
Mostyn J. The case concerned the inexplicable differences that accompany a draft judgment handed down respectively in the King’s Bench Division, the Family Division, and the Crown Court. H was served by the Crown Court with a document titled the ‘Findings Made Following Confiscation Proceedings’.
- Cases
- Contempt of Court
- Embargoed Judgments
- Criminal Confiscation and Restraint Orders
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CC v LC [2023] EWFC 5210 March 2023
HHJ Wildblood KC. Final hearing in a needs case in which the assets available were limited to a three bedroom property, which housed the W and the three minor children of the marriage. In addition, each party held pensions of a similar value.The H had ref…
- Cases
- Disclosure
- Conduct
- Costs
- Needs
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RL v NL [2023] EWFC 759 May 2023
HHJ Madeleine Reardon KC. Striking out of Husband’s application to set aside a financial remedy order made in 1995. The FR order provided that H was to transfer his interest in FMH to W and thereafter there was to be a clean break, but the transfer…
- Cases
- Delay
- Striking Out Applications
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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Backstrom v Wennberg [2023] EWFC 7928 April 2023
Mr L. Samuels KC, sitting as a deputy High Court judge.The court heard cross applications for financial remedies orders. W issued a notice that H show cause why he should not be held to their pre- and post-marital agreements.H failed to attend the final h…
- Cases
- Non-Disclosure
- Disclosure
- Agreements
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Unger and another (in substitution for Hasan) (Appellants) v Ul-Hasan (deceased) and another (Respondents) [2023] UKSC 2228 June 2023
The Supreme Court has unanimously dismissed the appeal brought by the wife, Nafisa Hasan, against the magisterial and potentially seminal judgment of Mostyn J in Hasan v Ul-Hasan (Deceased) & Anor [2021] EWHC 1791 (Fam).
- Cases
- Barder Applications
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act
- Maintenance as a Cause of Action
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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AR v BR [2023] EWFC 7613 March 2023
HHJ Lynn Roberts. Divorce proceedings concerning UK nationals who relocated to Dubai in 2020. W commenced divorce proceedings in England. H did not dispute the divorce, but proceeded to say that he did not agree jurisdiction. H later began divorce proceed…
- Cases
- Forum Conveniens
- divorce
- Jurisdiction
- Domicile
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Hasan v Ul-Hasan (Deceased) & Anor [2021] EWHC 1791 (Fam)2 July 2021
Mostyn J. Does an unadjudicated claim by a wife under Part III Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 survive the death of the husband and thus be continued against his estate? This is the first instance judgment including certification to appeal dir…
- Cases
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act
- Maintenance as a Cause of Action
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Rose v Rose & Ors [2022] EWFC 19225 November 2022
His Honour Judge Booth (sitting as a Judge of the High Court pursuant to s 9 SCA 1981).How should the court ‘deal with a respondent husband who has been dishonest throughout, has failed to comply with court orders, has failed to provide relevant fin…
- Cases
- Conduct
- Variation of Settlements
- Trusts