Ma v Roux: Yes, You Can Strike Out a Set Aside Application

This is a response to the FRJ blog post by Nicholas Allen KC and Philip Tait, ‘Ma v Roux: Can You Strike Out a Set Aside Application?’ (25 September 2024), which posed the question as to whether the court is empowered to strike out an application to set aside a financial remedy order. In that article the authors carefully set out the background to this issue.

• Blog

• Striking Out Applications
• Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)

• Nicholas Fairbank
• Alexandra Halliday

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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.

• Cases

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

• Albert Gibbon

HKW v CRH [2024] EWFC 358 (B)4 December 2024

DDJ Rose. Final hearing in modest asset case. Court making findings on the validity of H’s purported loans/gifts to the parties’ children. Consideration of the Kimber factors concerning point of cohabitation.

• Cases

• Conduct
• Add-Backs

• Olivia Currie

KV v KV [2024] EWFC 1653 July 2024

Peel J. Application by W for (i) Maintenance Pending Suit pursuant to s 22 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 and (ii) a Legal Services Payment Order pursuant to s 22ZA of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973.

• Cases

• Foreign Assets
• Interim Relief
• Jurisdiction
• Maintenance Pending Suit
• Legal Services Payment Orders

• Sophie Cullis

Standish v Standish [2024] EWCA Civ 56723 May 2024

Landmark decision where Court of Appeal reduces W’s award by £20 million. Lord Justice Moylan, Lady Justice King and Lord Justice Phillips.

• Cases

• Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
• Sharing
• Gifts
• Matrimonialisation
• Tax
• Autonomy
• Trusts

• Sophia Paraskeva