Goddard-Watts v Goddard-Watts [2023] EWCA Civ 11515 February 2023

Lady Justice Macur, Lady Justice Nicola Davies and Lady Justice Carr.W’s appeal of order made by Sir Jonathan Cohen in January 2022 (see previous case summary) using the ‘Kingdon approach’. On two separate occasions since settlement of f…

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• Disclosure
• Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)

• Rebekah Batt

XO v YO & Anor [2022] EWFC 11422 September 2022

HHJ Hess. Financial remedies decision concerning whether English court had jurisdiction to determine a claim in respect of immovable property situated outside England where the claim is based on equity; and can adverse inferences be drawn from a party’s f…

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• Foreign Assets
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• Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Trusts and Their Recognition

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X v Y [2022] EWFC 9515 August 2022

HHJ Hess. Financial remedy judgment in which the wife’s capital claims were adjourned for a decade in view of dishonest fabrication of bank statements by H and uncertainty as to assets. Judgment published ‘to draw wider attention to the abilit…

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• Adjourned Capital Claim
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Dodgy Digital Documents: Where Are We Now? Where Are We Going?

In the sun-kissed, halcyon days of late 2019 when Brexit had not yet taken effect and a corona was a halo of gas seen around the sun during an eclipse, a fevered discussion was taking place on Twitter between family lawyers regarding the increasing freque…

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• Digital
• Documents
• Fraud
• Evidence
• Manipulation
• Fake

• Helen Brander

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Villiers v Villiers [2022] EWCA Civ 77210 June 2022

Moylan LJ, Coulson LJ and Arnold LJ.Appeal concerning an order by Mostyn J dismissing W’s application under s 27 of MCA 1973. Case provides useful content on the interpretation and application of s 27. It was concluded that W’s application had been wrongl…

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• Maintenance
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• Jurisdiction

• Stephanie Coker

The Insolvency Service v Becker & Anor [2020] EWHC 2546 (Fam)25 September 2020

Mostyn J.The Insolvency Service brought criminal proceedings against the tennis player Boris Becker, alleging that he had failed to disclose all his assets. One count of alleged non-disclosure related to the existence of the BB Settlement, a trust establi…

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• Publicity and Confidentiality
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• Bankruptcy

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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…

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• Disclosure
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• Procedure on Non-Disclosure

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Baker v Baker [2022] EWFC 154 February 2022

Mostyn J.Application by W for maintenance pending suit following Rattan v Kuwad [2021] EWCA Civ 1. Held, court entitled to make assumptions about H’s ability to pay in face of ‘lamentable’ disclosure. Declines to allow W to roll up part of her income in c…

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• Disclosure
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• Maintenance Pending Suit

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