N v J: the Last Word on Domestic Abuse as Conduct?

On Monday last week, in In N v J [2024] EWFC 184 (15 July 2024), Mr Justice Peel handed down the most recent authority on pleading conduct pursuant to s 25(2)(g) of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973. Those interested in this area have been keen to see whether Mr Justice Peel, as the Lead Judge of the Financial Remedies Court, would move the dial either in terms of procedure, or the application of the substantive law. Like all of Mr Justice Peel’s judgments, it is erudite, comprehensive and concise. It is also timely.

• Blog

• Conduct
• Domestic Abuse

• Samantha Hillas KC
• Olivia Piercy
• Anita Mehta

!24/07/2024 10:05

Kaur v Singh and Others [2023] EWHC 304 (Fam)14 February 2023

Peel J. Claim under the Inheritance Act 1975 for reasonable financial provision from her deceased husband under Part 8 of the CPR. The claim was undefended. The claimant sought half of the estate which she estimated at £995,000. The will left the est…

• Cases

• Needs
• Inheritance Act Applications
• Reasonable Financial Provision

• Stephanie Coker

What Is a ‘Predicament of Real Need’?

In Radmacher (Formerly Granatino) v Granatino [2010] 2 FLR 1900 at [81] Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers said that of the three strands identified in White v White [2000] 2 FLR 981 and Miller/McFarlane [2006] 1 FLR 1186 it was needs and compensation which could most readily render it unfair to hold the parties to an ante-nuptial agreement. But what is the meaning of ‘predicament of real need’?

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• Pre-Nuptial Agreements
• Needs

• Nicholas Allen KC

!16/07/2024 14:38

Notionally Flawed? Notional Assessments in LSPO Applications

The past weeks have brought two more High Court judgments considering the practice of deducting a percentage from an LSPO applicant’s costs provision by way of a ‘notional standard assessment’.

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• Legal Services Payment Orders

• Henry Hood
• Anna Roiser

!11/07/2024 18:37

AH v BH [2024] EWFC 1257 June 2024

Peel J final hearing judgment in high-net-worth FR case in which the parties had entered into a pre-nuptial agreement which purported to ‘severely limit W’s financial remedy claims in her own right and the financial needs of W and the children’.

• Cases

• Needs
• Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
• Agreements

• Ellie Rogers