Polly Morgan | Case Editor
Published: 07/02/2022 15:44
Polly Morgan is the sole author of the textbook Morgan's Family Law (2nd edn, Oxford University Press 2024) as well as the author of a number of Law Society practitioner courses on family law. A Professor of Family Law at UEA Law School, Polly is also Director of the multi award-winning UEA Law Clinic. A solicitor and law firm co-founder, she now practises exclusively in the free family law advice clinic of Norfolk Community Law Service. She is one of four trustees of the Transparency Project, and a legal blogger.
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Lloyd Dorian Williams v Gerwyn Lloyd Williams & Ors [2024] EWCA Civ 421 February 2024
King, Asplin, and Nugee LJJ. Family farm. No dispute that applicant/appellant and his parents acquired the property on trust for themselves as equal co-owners. Absent express declaration, did they hold as joint tenants or tenants in common?
- Cases
- TLATA Applications
- Survivorship (Right Of)
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NW v BH [2024] EWFC 118 (B)23 May 2024
Recorder Rhys Taylor. Evidentially complex final hearing in needs-based case involving verbal Daniels v Walker application, abandoning of SJE report, disclosure inadequacies, and an intervenor being removed.
- Cases
- Disclosure
- Daniels v Walker Application
- Joinder of Third Parties
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DH v RH (No 4) (Costs) [2024] EWFC 11424 May 2024
MacDonald J. Costs judgment following hearing in contentious case involving costs amounting to 23% of the assets.
- Cases
- Conduct
- Costs
- Add-Backs
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DH v RH (No 3) (Final Hearing) [2024] EWFC 7918 April 2024
MacDonald J. Final hearing in contentious case involving high legal costs and allegations of wanton dissipation.
- Cases
- Costs
- Add-Backs
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UD v TQ [2024] EWFC 119 (B)26 April 2024
HHJ Hess. Final hearing in case involving footballer. Application of *Moher* in light of H’s misconduct and attachment of earnings order made to secure maintenance.
- Cases
- Child Maintenance
- Conduct
- Costs
- Disclosure from Third Parties
- Enforcement
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NM v PM [2024] EWFC 199 (B)18 July 2024
DDJ Nahal-Macdonald. Preliminary issues hearing in relation to interpretation of a clause in a prenuptial agreement.
- Cases
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Agreements
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RG v TA (Appeal: Legal Services Funding Order: Schedule 1 Children Act 1989) [2023] EWHC 3155 (Fam)6 October 2023
Roberts J. Appeal from HHJ Ellis who had refused F’s application for a legal services payment order of £125,000 in relation to his s 8 and Schedule 1 applications.
- Cases
- Legal Services Payment Orders
- Efficient Conduct
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BC v SC [2023] EWFC 307 (B)12 December 2023
DDJ Holmes-Milner. FR decision at DDJ level. Consideration of treatment of critical illness payout for H’s cancer.
- Cases
- Housing Need
- Pensions on Divorce
- Impaired Life Expectancy
- Costs
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Financial Remedies Case Round-Up (Mid-January 2024 to end April 2024)
Polly Morgan rounds up cases from the first third of 2024, including Schedule 1 cases, Transfers of tenancy and Qualified Legal Representatives.
- Journal
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Tousi v Gaydukova [2024] EWCA Civ 2036 March 2024
McFarlane P, Moylan and Holroyde LJJ. Are the parties to a void marriage able to apply for a transfer of tenancy as cohabitants, and does the lex loci celebrationis determine the ramifications of invalidity?
- Cases
- Non-Qualifying Ceremony
- Validity of marriage
- Jurisdiction
- Locus Lex Celebrationis
- Void Marriage
- Transfer of Tenancy