CG v SG [2023] EWHC 942 (Fam)10 March 2023

HHJ Hess. A final hearing in financial remedy proceedings heard over six days.Both parties were in their sixties and had a long marriage of 30 years. The children were all adult and independent. During the marriage, the W, a qualified nurse, had taken on…

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• Rebekah Batt

Depletion of Business Profits and Assets During Separation and Divorce Proceedings – Would it Have Happened Anyway?

This article is written from the perspective of the business valuation expert. We often see business profits and assets deplete over the period of separation and during divorce proceedings. The question is to what extent this can/could have been controlled by the business owner (and usually shareholder/director in owner-managed businesses) and what was due to circumstances outside their control. Would the depletion of assets and profits have happened anyway if not for the divorce?

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• Hollie Edwards-Davies

!27/03/2023 09:17

Clarke v Clarke – A Brave New (Valuation) World

Business valuers are often asked to estimate the value of interests in companies that do not represent the entirety of the company’s share capital. In those cases, the application of an appropriate valuation discount, which accurately reflects the attributes of a subject shareholding can be both a contentious and material issue, with the size (and application) of the assessed discount potentially having a large effect on the overall valuation of an individual’s interest.

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• Thomas Rodwell

!27/03/2023 09:16

Renée v Galbraith-Marten [2022] EWFC 1184 October 2022

Mostyn J. F’s application for extension of extended civil restraint order (ECRO) and M’s application for permission pursuant to ECRO to bring a Schedule 1 application for a capitalised school fees order and variation of general maintenance (to…

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• Rebekah Batt

Mltpl: A New Business Valuation Tool

Business valuations are often associated with high costs, long delays and, in many instances, subjective analysis and unsupported conclusions. Inevitably, questions arise as to their utility, given their inherent fragility.

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!06/07/2022 07:12

'A Matter of Clarification' – Written Questions to Experts

A party’s ability to put written questions to an expert – both one instructed by another party or a single joint expert – is provided for by FPR 25.10. The rule dictates that questions put to an expert must inter alia both be 'proportionate' (r.25(2)(a))…

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• Nicholas Allen KC

!19/05/2022 07:00

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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