Case Management Tables: Aide Memoire

Below are two case management tables which set out the procedure for use in all financial remedy applications below High Court level. They have been kindly prepared by Nicholas Allen KC and Daniel Mutton at 29 Bedford Row. Both tables seek to provide a co…

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• Case Management

!11/03/2023 13:58

Goddard-Watts v Goddard-Watts [2023] EWCA Civ 115

Lady Justice Macur, Lady Justice Nicola Davies and Lady Justice Carr.W’s appeal of order made by Sir Jonathan Cohen in January 2022 (see previous case summary) using the ‘Kingdon approach’. On two separate occasions since settlement of f…

• Cases

• Disclosure
• Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)

• Rebekah Batt

!15/02/2023 09:00

Budget Implications for Financial Remedies

It was a relatively quiet budget yesterday in terms of the changes that will impact financial remedy proceedings. The main headlines are the pension changes and the confirmation that the new CGT rules for divorcing couples, which look set to come in from…

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• Sofia Thomas

!16/03/2023 16:35

KM v CV [2022] EWFC 174

HHJ Robinson. Case concerning pensions where neither party had any capital. FMH had been sold with £10,000 left after payment of mortgage and costs.Case concerned treatment of W’s two police pensions. Pension expert, Mr Nobbs, concluded equalis…

• Cases

• Benefits
• Needs
• Pensions on Divorce

• Rebekah Batt

!01/03/2023 09:00

Kaur v Singh and Others [2023] EWHC 304 (Fam)

Peel J. Claim under the Inheritance Act 1975 for reasonable financial provision from her deceased husband under Part 8 of the CPR. The claim was undefended. The claimant sought half of the estate which she estimated at £995,000. The will left the est…

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• Needs
• Inheritance Act Applications
• Reasonable Financial Provision

• Stephanie Coker

!14/02/2023 00:09