Jasmine Knapman
Published: 30/09/2024 10:49
Jasmine Knapman recently joined 29 Bedford Row as a junior tenant, following successful completion of her pupillage. Jasmine welcomes instructions in all areas of family law.
Published: 30/09/2024 10:49
Jasmine Knapman recently joined 29 Bedford Row as a junior tenant, following successful completion of her pupillage. Jasmine welcomes instructions in all areas of family law.
Financial remedies practitioners are well-accustomed to advising parties in straitened financial circumstances. Often the central question is how to stretch the available resources to ensure both parties have a roof over their heads. However, when one or both parties find themselves in serious financial difficulty, a less familiar issue may arise: the interplay between the Insolvency Act 1986 and the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973.
!01/10/2024 08:00
It was settled in Wyatt v Vince [2015] UKSC 14 that the court cannot strike-out/give summary judgment on a legally recognisable application for a financial remedy order as an applicant is entitled to have such an application heard on its merits. But is that the end of the matter? In Ma v Roux [2024] EWHC 1917 (Fam) Francis J heard an appeal from HHJ Reardon.
!25/09/2024 17:32
HHJ Hess. W (51) and H (49) cohabited in a flat in W’s sole name from late 2003 and married in 2004. W was a GP. H was a former painter and decorator.
MacDonald J. Final hearing in contentious case involving high legal costs and allegations of wanton dissipation.
MacDonald J. Costs judgment following hearing in contentious case involving costs amounting to 23% of the assets.
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