Of Dogs and Divorce

Of dogs and divorce: why treating pets as chattels is an anachronism.

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• divorce

• District Judge Hatvany

!28/01/2025 10:02

ST v AR [2025] EWFC 4

The Husband is 70. The Wife is 51. They have a 9-year-old daughter. They cohabited from February 2003 and in early 2012 separated due to the wife’s affair. In August 2012 – c.9 months later – they reunited. They married on 8 October 2012. The wife applied for divorce in May 2023. They therefore had nearly 20 years together, albeit not seamless cohabitation.

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• Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
• Matrimonialisation
• Needs

• Jessica Reid

!29/01/2025 09:27

James Turner KC (1952–2025): An Obituary

James Turner KC, who has died aged 72, was a titan of the bar. In an increasingly specialised legal world, he had a uniquely broad practice for a family barrister: financial remedies, child abduction, divorce, crime, judicial review, medical disciplinary work and administrative law.

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• Obituaries

• Alexander Chandler KC

!24/01/2025 10:42

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

• Vivien Croly

XY v XX [2024] EWFC 387 (B)8 November 2024

HHJ Hess. Application brought by H to set aside on the basis of a ‘mutual mistake’ of the parties which presented the court with inaccurate computational figures.

• Cases

• Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)

• Albert Gibbon