FO v PN [2025] EWFC 327 (B)
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2025/327?query=FO+PN
HHJ Hess
Related
Section 35: Dead Letter or Living Instrument? The Contractual Status of Agreements, and the Scope of the Court’s Power to Vary Them
[2026] 1 FRJ 5. This article reviews the legal status of agreements made between spouses, including their enforceability as actionable contracts, and the importance of the powers the courts have to vary or revoke such agreements.
Adjudicating Undue Pressure in Nuptial Agreements
When the court considers the effect of a nuptial agreement, it must consider how pressure may undermine a party’s decision to sign, while recognising why the other party sought it.
Foreign Property Regimes and English Matrimonial Finance: Parity or Particularity?
Introduction
Since the landmark decision in Radmacher v Granatino [2010] UKSC 42, [2011] 1 AC 534, English law has recognised the legitimacy of pre-nuptial agreements. As family life becomes increasingly international, the courts regularly encounter a wide variety of agreements, including those signed abroad.
The most common form of foreign
Related
Section 35: Dead Letter or Living Instrument? The Contractual Status of Agreements, and the Scope of the Court’s Power to Vary Them
[2026] 1 FRJ 5. This article reviews the legal status of agreements made between spouses, including their enforceability as actionable contracts, and the importance of the powers the courts have to vary or revoke such agreements.
Adjudicating Undue Pressure in Nuptial Agreements
When the court considers the effect of a nuptial agreement, it must consider how pressure may undermine a party’s decision to sign, while recognising why the other party sought it.
Foreign Property Regimes and English Matrimonial Finance: Parity or Particularity?
Introduction
Since the landmark decision in Radmacher v Granatino [2010] UKSC 42, [2011] 1 AC 534, English law has recognised the legitimacy of pre-nuptial agreements. As family life becomes increasingly international, the courts regularly encounter a wide variety of agreements, including those signed abroad.
The most common form of foreign
Latest
Beyond Thing 1 and Thing 2: Cryptoassets and the New Property Landscape
For almost 140 years, bright-eyed law students have been taught that the world of personal property contains only two species of thing: those which can be physically held, and those which can be enforced. Cryptoassets forced the issue.
Now out: Financial Remedies Journal 2026 Issue 1 (Spring 2026)
The new issue of the Financial Remedies Journal is now available.
Stop! In the Name of the LSA: Why Your Favourite Legal Exec Can’t Touch That Form A after Mazur and XX v GH
HHJ Farquhar was confronted with the practical consequences of Mazur for family law cases. The issue arose when Family Law Partners, a highly respected specialist family law firm, sought an exemption permitting their senior Chartered Legal Executive, Ms Lisa Burton Durham, to conduct litigation.