Costs
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VV v VV [2022] EWFC 4617 May 2022
Peel J.Costs judgment following outcome of acrimonious and expensive financial remedy proceedings (summary here. W’s award included what H had paid already towards her legal costs (£400k) plus sufficient to discharge her outstanding legal costs (£237,000)…
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- Conduct
- Costs
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Goddard-Watts v Goddard Watts [2022] EWHC 711 (Fam)3 February 2022
Sir Jonathan Cohen.Second rehearing of W’s application for financial remedy orders, two previous orders having been set aside due to H’s non-disclosure. W’s application based on H’s knowledge at the time of the (second) judgment that he was about to recei…
- Cases
- Costs
- Procedure on Non-Disclosure
- Disclosure
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A v V [2022] EWHC 3501 (Fam)8 July 2022
Mr Justice Francis. A ‘relatively straightforward’ application pursuant to Schedule 1. F’s costs were c.£3.8m and M’s were £1.7m, despite F attending the final hearing as a litigant in person. F ran the millionaire’…
- Cases
- Costs
- Trusts
- Millionaire's Defence
- Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
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Traharne v Limb [2022] EWFC 2731 March 2022
Cohen J. Final hearing in W’s financial remedies application in which argument centred on a post-nuptial agreement (PNA) entered into by the parties shortly prior to separation. W argued that she had been subjected to coercive and controlling behaviour an…
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- Conduct
- Costs
- Agreements
- Needs
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Xanthopoulos v Rakshina [2022] EWFC 3012 April 2022
Mostyn J.Comprehensive survey of law on anonymisation of judgments; [74]–[142]. Correct question is 'Why is it in the public interest that the parties should be anonymous?' rather than 'Why is it in the public interest that the parties should be named?'…
- Cases
- Legal Services Payment Orders
- Publicity and Confidentiality
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act
- Costs
- Release from Undertakings
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Re A (Schedule 1, Overspend, Costs Clawback) [2022] EWFC 2121 March 2022
Recorder Chandler QC.Schedule 1 proceedings in which M sought that F clear all her liabilities and provide additional periodical payments above the agreed £8,000 pcm for the costs of a nanny.M was described as 'spending money as if it was going out of fas…
- Cases
- Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
- Costs
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A v R [2021] EWFC B3524 June 2021
https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2021/B35.html
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A v M [2021] EWFC 895 November 2021
Mostyn J.H worked in private equity and had set up two funds of his own, W was the beneficiary of valuable trust funds. Mostyn J set out a detailed method for dealing with H’s carried interest (in his view a hybrid resource, neither exclusively return on…
- Cases
- Publicity and Confidentiality
- Clean Breaks and Term Maintenance
- Costs
- Sharing Principle
- Add-Backs
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MG v AR [2021] EWHC 3133 (Fam)16 November 2021
Mostyn J.In the first reported judgment on security for costs since the advent of the FPR, Mostyn J gives a helpful review of the applicable principles in family cases. Unlike in civil case law, he considers that the rarity of costs orders requires the co…
- Cases
- Costs
- Security for costs
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L v L [2021] EWFC B835 November 2021
HHJ Booth.Equal sharing of a combined c.£24m interest in a business acquired from H’s father prior to the 19-year marriage held to apply. H’s shareholding was restructured 3 years prior to separation. The character of this restructuring, which had provide…
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- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Companies
- Costs