GR v AR [2025] EWFC 143 (B)10 March 2025

HHJ Hess (sitting as a deputy High Court judge). Application of the sharing principle and dispute over matrimonial vs non matrimonial property in HNW financial remedy case.

• Cases

• Sharing Principle
• Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
• Shares
• High Net Worth
• Family Home

• Abigail Clements-Bewley

A v B [2025] EWFC 12714 April 2025

Trowell J. Application for a lump sum for litigation costs under Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989 in relation to proceedings under s 8 of the Children Act 1989.

• Cases

• Costs
• Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications

• Katie Stephens

Remediable Service Statements – What to Expect for ‘Immediate Choice’ Members

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.

• Blog

• Pensions

• Denise Andryszewska

!12/06/2025 09:00

James v Seymour: The Calculator

As helpfully summarised by Calum Smith on the FRJ website Mostyn J’s judgment in James v Seymour [2023] EWHC 844 (Fam) 675 included a renewed attempt to tackle how Child Maintenance should be calculated, effectively refining the methodology first se…

• Blog

• Child Maintenance

• Dom Christophers

!29/05/2023 08:00

THR v WAT [2025] EWHC 1125 (Fam)17 March 2025

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.

• Cases

• Agreements
• Child Periodical Payments
• Child Maintenance
• Xydhias

• Elizabeth Bowden