Costs
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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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- Agreements
- Conduct
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- 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
- Release from Undertakings
- Publicity and Confidentiality
- Costs
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act
- Legal Services Payment Orders
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Re A (Schedule 1, Overspend, Costs Clawback) [2022] EWFC 2121 March 2022
Editor's note: this judgment has been removed from Bailii, possibly because of concerns about jigsaw identification.Recorder Chandler QC.Schedule 1 proceedings in which M sought that F clear all her liabilities and provide additional periodical payments a…
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- Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
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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
- Sharing Principle
- Publicity and Confidentiality
- Clean Breaks and Term Maintenance
- Costs
- 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
- Security for costs
- 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
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Loggie v Loggie [2022] EWFC 227 January 2022
Mostyn J.Wife’s application for husband to indemnify her in relation to unexpectedly high fees of SJE in long-running financial remedy proceedings. This indemnity had been agreed in the earlier proceedings but not incorporated into the final order. Mostyn…
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- slip rule
- Experts
- Costs
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CW v CH (MFPA 1984 Part III: Interim Applications) [2022] EWFC B110 January 2022
Rec. AllenWife’s application under MFPA 1984 Part III for interim periodical payments and a costs allowance for legal fees. Dispute as to whether W had valid claim, to be addressed at substantive hearing, did not preclude interim award. H could afford to…
- Cases
- Maintenance Pending Suit
- Costs
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act
- Legal Services Payment Orders
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LF v DF Financial Remedy: Appeal: Costs Debts in a Needs Case) [2021] EWFC B5023 August 2021
https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2021/B50.html
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- Needs