Calum Smith
Published: 28/10/2022 14:04
Pupil Barrister, 1 Hare Court.
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G v G (Confiscation Order: Conduct) [2023] EWFC 16
HHJ Robinson. The Husband ('H') was 53, the Wife ('W') 50. Having cohabited from 1999 and married in 2006, the parties had two children of ages 15 and 11. W was a secretary but a debilitating illness precluded her from working. H was a doctor before he wa…
- Cases
- Conduct
!26/01/2023 09:00
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A (former wife) v A (former husband) [2023] EWFC 4
Recorder Laura Moys. Helpful approach to case management with exceptionally difficult LiP.W was 57, H 59. They separated after 30 years of marriage, producing one child (now aged 30). The assets were worth £1.3m. W was a manager at her local county counci…
- Cases
- Managing Difficult Hearings
- Conduct
!12/01/2023 09:00
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TM v KM [2022] EWFC 155
HHJ Hess. Application of compensation principle. W was 50 and had attended what many consider to be the finest business school in the world before a highly successful career in investment finance. In 2006 and 2007, before she ceased work, W earned £505,00…
- Cases
- Compensation Principle
!02/12/2022 09:00
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WD v MH [2022] EWFC 162
Mr Recorder Rhys Taylor. H was 66 and W 61. Short marriage.Within judicial separation proceedings (although neither party could confirm why such were preferred to divorce), the parties agreed (the 2008 Agreement), inter alia, the following:H to pay W a lu…
- Cases
- Delay
- Costs
- Agreements
!18/11/2022 09:00
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P v P (Treatment of costs in sharing cases) [2022] EWFC 158
DDJ David Hodson. The court published this discrete judgment to address several issues of legal costs in a wholly sharing claim. This was a case which ‘should never have got to Form A, let alone a final hearing’; W had incurred £130,000 in legal costs whe…
- Cases
- Sharing Principle
- Add-Backs
!14/11/2022 09:00
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CMX v EJX (French Marriage Contract) [2020] EWFC 136
Moor J. The Husband (‘H’) was a 56 year old French national and Chairman of Industrial Investment Banking at bank. The Wife (‘W’) was French/Lebanese/British, 54 years old and had a successful career in the bottled water industry. They lived in England.Mr…
- Cases
- Pensions on Divorce
- Needs
- Agreements
!02/11/2022 09:00
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W v H (Contested Divorce) [2022] EWFC 150
HHJ Greensmith. H defended W’s petition for divorce. The parties were 45. H was a doctor and W a social worker. They married in Australia in 2014 and separated in 2017. They have three children.This was not H’s first round of contested divorce/financial r…
- Cases
- Intermediaries
- Costs
- Defended Divorce
!02/11/2022 09:00
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YC v ZC [2022] EWFC 137
HHJ Hess. After over 30 years of marriage, the husband’s ('H') application for financial remedy. H was a 60-year-old businessman, described by the judge at [6] as ‘a driven character with … a tendency to … take personal and financial risks and live life ‘…
- Cases
- Add-Backs
- Pensions on Divorce
- Duxbury Capitalisation
!17/10/2022 09:00
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Quashie v Solomon [2022] UKPC 34
Emlyn Quashie (Administratrix Pendente Lite of the Estate of the Deceased Beresford Solomon) (Appellant) v Ayana Solomon (Respondent) (Trinidad and Tobago) [2022] UKPC 34.
- Cases
!30/09/2022 09:00
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Nicolaisen v Nicolaisen [2022] EWFC 70
Moor J. A case involving complex jurisdiction arguments, habitual residence, international marital agreements and underlying assets worth over £200m.Husband (‘H’) was 70 years old and a Norwegian national. The Wife (‘W’) was 50 years old, born in Turkmeni…
- Cases
- Jurisdiction
- Forum Disputes
- Forum
!01/07/2022 09:00
