David Salter
Published: 15/07/2022 15:14
David Salter is a former deputy High Court judge and Recorder now undertaking private FDRs.
Published: 15/07/2022 15:14
David Salter is a former deputy High Court judge and Recorder now undertaking private FDRs.
DJ Phillips. Final hearing where the issues concerned whether a post-nuptial agreement was binding on the parties and fair. The parties were married for 9 years and had one child, 10, and, W’s older child, 19, who was treated as a child of the family, having been 6 years when the parties met. Four days after the marriage, the parties signed a PNA.
Landmark decision where Court of Appeal reduces W’s award by £20 million. Lord Justice Moylan, Lady Justice King and Lord Justice Phillips.
Every family lawyer knows that the validity of pre-nuptial agreements (pre-nups) is at the mercy of the judge’s discretion, yet a freely entered agreement that is not unfair will be given decisive weight.
!01/07/2024 07:00
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.
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.
!19/12/2024 11:39
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