Published: 13/05/2025 09:45
Sonny Patel is a Solicitor and Partner at Expatriate Law (Asia). He set up the Singapore outpost of Expatriate Law in 2019. Sonny acts for English expatriates based in Singapore, Hong Kong and across Southeast Asia. Sonny is ranked by Chambers and Partners and is a recommended lawyer in the Spears Family Law Index.
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All of the public sector pension schemes are now further along the process of allowing for the McCloud judgment (public sector pensions remedy) for affected members (typically those with some pensionable service in the remedy period from 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2022). Some of the public sector pension schemes have now commenced issuing Remediable Service Statements to affected members.
!12/06/2025 09:00
HHJ Hess navigated his way through an Xydhias puzzle. Parties informed the judge they were Xydhias-bound but then argued over (i) a £2m asset, (ii) costs, (iii) an interest provision, and (iv) security. The court’s conclusions, in a nutshell, were that if it had not been raised at the time or in the written agreement, then the court would favour the written agreement.
Following the successful appeal of the arbitral award in LT v ZU [2023] EWFC 179, the decision has been reversed in the further appeal to the High Court ([2024] EWHC 778 (Fam)). LT v ZU is significant as it provides authority to permit a court to require a party to take out a mortgaged loan to provide housing pursuant to Sch 1; and pay the monthly mortgage instalments in cases where the court has no jurisdiction to make periodical payments. The father is seeking permission to appeal.
!16/05/2024 10:26
Can the Family Court order a party to take out and pay a mortgage in order to meet the other party’s housing needs?
!16/05/2024 10:10
Recorder Nicholas Allen KC. Judgment following four-day final hearing, in which the parties agreed that it was a sharing case and that the net capital assets should be divided equally. The dispute centred around issues of computation, including tax issues and add-back vs Wells sharing.
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