
Divorce Orders
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Ogbedo v Oghenerume-Taiga [2024] EWHC 3193 (Fam)12 December 2024
Sir Jonathan Cohen. This is a successful application of NO (herein referred to as ‘F’) to strike out MT’s (herein referred to as ‘M’) application for nullity pursuant to FPR 4.4 on the basis that it was an abuse of the court’s process. The court applied the test in HMRC v Kishore [2021] EWCA 1565.
- Cases
- Nullity
- Jurisdiction
- Divorce Orders
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act
- Striking Out Applications
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HK v SS [2025] EWFC 5 (B)14 January 2025
HHJ Simmonds, National Lead Judge for Divorce. Guidance on when a delay between conditional order being made, and application for a final order, is delay sufficient to cause the court to question whether a final order should be made.
- Cases
- Setting Aside a Decree Nisi
- Divorce Orders
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RN v DA (Divorce – Rescission of Decree Nisi) [2023] EWFC 25530 November 2023
HHJ Vincent. Final Hearing of cross-applications to either grant a decree absolute out of time or rescind the decree nisi. Addendum judgment on anonymisation.
- Cases
- Decree Absolute Out Of Time
- Publicity and Confidentiality
- Setting Aside a Decree Nisi
- Divorce Orders
- Decree Nisi/Decree Final
- Rescission of Divorce Decree
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Mahtani v Mahtani [2023] EWHC 2988 (Fam)22 November 2023
Mr James Ewins KC sitting as a deputy High Court judge. Application by W for an order under s 51(3) of the Family Law Act 1986, for non-recognition of the overseas divorce obtained by H in Indonesia and for a stay on her English divorce petition and financial remedies application to be lifted.
- Cases
- Family Law Act 1986
- Jurisdiction
- Non-Recognition of Overseas Divorce
- Divorce Orders
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act