Cases
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Ralph v Given [2022] EWHC 2395 (KB)23 September 2022
Freedman J. Claimant’s application for summary judgment in relation to application to deliver up an Aston Martin DBX and a Range Rover Sport or damages for conversion. C argued these were gifts. The claimant (C) and defendant (D) were engaged, but separat…
- Cases
- Chattels
- Gifts
- Cohabitation
- Summary Judgment
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SA v FA [2022] EWFC 1159 September 2022
HHJ Hess. Judgment concerning divorce proceedings, domicile and the most appropriate forum.The parties met and married in England; the W was originally from South Africa. They had moved to the UAE in 2008 and remained there due to the H’s job; both appear…
- Cases
- divorce
- Jurisdiction
- Domicile
- Forum
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AIC Ltd (Respondent) v Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (Appellant) [2022] UKSC 1615 June 2022
Lords Hodge, Briggs, Sales, Hamblen and Leggatt. What should a judge do when, shortly after oral judgment but before a formal written minute of the order has been sealed, one of the parties asks the judge to reconsider the judgment and the order? While ju…
- Cases
- Principle of Finality
- Judicial Discretion
- Appeals
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CF v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2022] UKUT 271 (AAC)10 October 2022
Upper Tribunal Judge Wikeley. Decision in relation to proper procedure in child maintenance appeals. First tier judge had determined F’s appeal (against decision that child was still a qualifying child) on paper without hearing. Rule 27 of the Tribunal Pr…
- Cases
- Child Support Appeal Procedure
- Child Support
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Cazalet v Abu-Zalaf [2022] EWFC 11917 October 2022
Mostyn J. W’s application for (i) the recission of decree nisi, (ii) the dismissal of the underlying divorce petition and (iii) the set aside of the financial order made subsequent to that. The parties had been the subject of Mostyn J’s judgment of BN v M…
- Cases
- Duration of the Marriage
- Agreements
- Setting Aside a Decree Nisi
- Rescission of Divorce Decree
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Nieman v Withers LLP [2022] EWHC 2237 (QB)19 July 2022
Andrew Baker J. H brought a claim against Withers LLP on the ground that Withers had provided him with negligent advice in the context of his divorce, and that the terms agreed with W by way of financial settlement following their divorce were not as good…
- Cases
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Renée v Galbraith-Marten [2022] EWFC 1184 October 2022
Mostyn J. F’s application for extension of extended civil restraint order (ECRO) and M’s application for permission pursuant to ECRO to bring a Schedule 1 application for a capitalised school fees order and variation of general maintenance (to…
- Cases
- Experts
- Variation Applications
- Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
- Civil Restraint Orders
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Guest v Guest [2022] UKSC 2719 October 2022
Lord Briggs, Lady Arden, Lord Leggatt, Lord Stephens, Lady Rose. What is the proper approach to granting relief under the doctrine of proprietary estoppel?The claimant Andrew Guest had relied to his significant detriment on assurances made by his father w…
- Cases
- Proprietary Estoppel
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Guest v Guest [2020] EWCA Civ 38717 March 2020
Floyd, Newey, and Arnold LJJ. Appeal from a decision of HHJ Russen QC, summarised here, that the claimant, Andrew, had relied to his detriment on assurances made by his father with this mother’s tacit agreement that he would inherit a significant proporti…
- Cases
- Proprietary Estoppel
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Guest v Guest [2019] EWHC 869 (Ch)16 April 2019
HHJ Russen QC. The claimant, Andrew Guest, worked on his parents’ farm for thirty years for a lower wage than someone with his skills could have achieved elsewhere, in reliance – he argued – on his father’s promise, with his mother’s tacit agreement, that…
- Cases
- Proprietary Estoppel
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