Published: 01/11/2024 11:18
Jemima Kearney is a solicitor at Vardags. She advises on all areas of private family law, including divorce and associated jurisdictional issues, financial claims following relationship breakdown, and private law children matters. Prior to her career as a solicitor, Jemima read Jurisprudence at Somerville College, Oxford.
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Cohen J. Application by H to strike out W’s application to set aside a final order in financial remedies proceedings on the ground of H’s misrepresentation.
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Domicile has been a fundamental basis of jurisdiction in English law including English family law. But it is intrinsically backward-looking, archaic in its concepts, thoroughly unknown or at best misunderstood by the population, differently defined abroad and at odds with many other countries including the EU. With the non-domicile tax status being abolished as announced in the budget in late October 2024, is it not time now to end domicile as a family law basis of jurisdiction? Nationality is a far more straightforward, certain and modern basis.
!11/11/2024 11:48
Landmark decision where Court of Appeal reduces W’s award by £20 million. Lord Justice Moylan, Lady Justice King and Lord Justice Phillips.
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