HK v SS [2025] EWFC 5 (B)14 January 2025

HHJ Simmonds, National Lead Judge for Divorce. Guidance on when a delay between conditional order being made, and application for a final order, is delay sufficient to cause the court to question whether a final order should be made.

• Cases

• Setting Aside a Decree Nisi
• Divorce Orders

• Beth Payne

Demeanour and Denial (or Don’t Mention the Data)

In his groundbreaking 1925 work, Die Verneinung, psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud postulated the existence of the psychological defence mechanism ‘denial’, whereby facts too painful to process or accept are rejected. Examples of its applications abound.

• Journal

• Fact-Finding
• Witness Evidence
• Demeanour
• Evidence Given Remotely

• Brent Molyneux
• Nicholas Bennett
• Madeleine Whelan

!22/11/2024 06:00

ST v AR [2025] EWFC 49 January 2025

HHJ Vincent (sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge). Final hearing in a high-value case. Court making findings on whether H’s large inheritance had been matrimonialised, W’s entitlement to a second home, and who should be awarded the family home.

• Cases

• Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
• Needs

• Finn Judge

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

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.

• Blog

• Disclosure

• Shannon Knight

!19/12/2024 11:39