Koukash v Koukash – Can a Party Waive Privilege on Their Own WP Offer?

The heightened importance of negotiating openly and reasonably has led to parties seeking to unilaterally open up without prejudice offers, based on a misunderstanding of the distinction between without prejudice privilege and legal professional privilege. Both are common law rules and affect the admissibility of evidence. However they otherwise have nothing to do with one another.

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• Waiver of Privilege
• Costs
• Privilege

• James Cooper

!01/09/2023 10:04

Voidable Marriages

Can a declaration of non-recognition of a voidable overseas marriage, where at least one of the parties is domiciled in England and Wales, lawfully be made?

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• Void Marriage

• Sir Nicholas Mostyn

!20/09/2023 12:18

JD v RMD [2023] EWFC 12514 July 2023

DDJ Hodson. A financial remedy application where the debts and costs exceeded the assets.

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• Costs
• Debts

• Stephanie Coker

Excluding s 25(2)(g) ‘Conduct’ from Consideration at an Interim Stage – Strike-Out or Summary Judgment by Another Name?

Dmitry Tsvetkov v Elsina Khayrova [2023] EWFC 130 (4 August 2023) per Peel J has much of interest to say in relation to MCA 1973 s 25(2)(g) ‘conduct’.

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• Nicholas Allen KC
• Harry Campbell

!11/08/2023 09:00

McLean v Mclean & Ors [2023] EWHC 1735 (Fam)10 July 2023

Roberts J. An appeal of a final order by the H and five companies of which the H was the sole or majority shareholder following a final hearing conducted in their absence.

• Cases

• Applications To Adjourn
• Adverse Inferences
• Joinder of Third Parties
• Companies
• Appeals
• Disclosure

• Rebekah Batt