V v V [2024] EWFC 380 (B)19 December 2024

HHJ Booth. Appeal from a final order in a modest asset case, in which the court was tasked with balancing the needs of a party suffering from a serious disability and the needs of the primary carer of the children of the family.

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• Housing Need
• Appeals
• Mesher Orders and Deferred Charges
• Needs

• Albert Gibbon

The Duty of Disclosure: as Important Now as Ever

The duty of disclosure and its proactive nature runs through financial remedy proceedings like letters through a stick of seaside rock. It appears on the face of the Form E. It has been set out in numerous cases.

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• Disclosure

• Shannon Knight

!19/12/2024 11:39

Dickason v Dickason [2024] EWFC 285 (B)27 August 2024

HHJ Sweeney. H was a serial ‘non-attender’. In December 2021, H failed to attend the final hearing listed in the financial remedies proceedings. H had failed to comply with any directions made in advance of the hearing. A few days before the listing, H (via an email sent by his partner) made an application to adjourn. That application was refused, adverse inferences were drawn, and final orders were made in H’s absence.

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• Kieran Ball

James v Seymour: The Calculator

As helpfully summarised by Calum Smith on the FRJ website Mostyn J’s judgment in James v Seymour [2023] EWHC 844 (Fam) 675 included a renewed attempt to tackle how Child Maintenance should be calculated, effectively refining the methodology first se…

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• Child Maintenance

• Dom Christophers

!29/05/2023 08:00

Notionally Flawed? Notional Assessments in LSPO Applications

The past weeks have brought two more High Court judgments considering the practice of deducting a percentage from an LSPO applicant’s costs provision by way of a ‘notional standard assessment’.

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• Legal Services Payment Orders

• Henry Hood
• Anna Roiser

!11/07/2024 18:37