
Henrietta Boyle
Published: 09/01/2023 23:23
Henrietta Boyle is a family law barrister at 1 Hare Court, specialising in financial remedy cases.
Published: 09/01/2023 23:23
Henrietta Boyle is a family law barrister at 1 Hare Court, specialising in financial remedy cases.
If asked, Mr Standish may say that three rounds of litigation, with another to follow, were worth it – Mrs Standish, perhaps not. But for lawyers, with many questions left unanswered, and a feeling that the opportunity to settle the law on matrimonialisation with clarity and certainty has passed us by, it may not have been worthwhile.
!09/07/2025 10:15
In a previous post Nicholas Allen KC considered the potential impact of Waggott v Waggott [2018] 2 FLR 406 on the argument that income (or the assets or capital generated therefrom) earned in or referable to the first 12 months post-separation should be classed as matrimonial property to which the sharing principle applies. This issue has now been revisited in OS v DT [2025] EWFC 156 (B) per HHJ Hess.
!08/07/2025 07:00
HHJ Rodgers. Re-hearing following an appeal to the Court of Appeal against a final order made by District Judge Severn on 10 October 2022. On appeal, it was held there had been a misunderstanding of crucial funds available overseas, leading to a fundamentally flawed final decision.
Edwin Johnson J. TLATA judgment setting out the circumstances in which a new claim can be pursued on appeal, the law regarding the ‘release’ of one’s beneficial interest in property to another joint tenant, and the differences between re…
Judgment by DDJ G Evans in a modest asset case involving significant non-disclosure and the taking of evidence from a respondent in a non-Hague Convention jurisdiction (here, Pakistan).
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