
HHJ Hess (sitting as a deputy High Court judge). Application of the sharing principle and dispute over matrimonial vs non matrimonial property in HNW financial remedy case.
What happens if the Child Maintenance Service has determined that a non-resident parent is required to pay child maintenance to the parent-with-care, but payments are also being made towards the mortgage secured on the property in which PWC still lives with the qualifying child/children? Does it matter if the property is jointly owned by NRP and PWC? Will those mortgage payments reduce the amount of child maintenance?
!29/11/2024 06:00
All of the public sector pension schemes are now further along the process of allowing for the McCloud judgment (public sector pensions remedy) for affected members (typically those with some pensionable service in the remedy period from 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2022). Some of the public sector pension schemes have now commenced issuing Remediable Service Statements to affected members.
!12/06/2025 09:00
Henke J. Procedural judgment in children proceedings reaffirming legal protections for journalistic sources and highlighting the limits of transparency in the family courts.
HHJ Hess navigated his way through an Xydhias puzzle. Parties informed the judge they were Xydhias-bound but then argued over (i) a £2m asset, (ii) costs, (iii) an interest provision, and (iv) security. The court’s conclusions, in a nutshell, were that if it had not been raised at the time or in the written agreement, then the court would favour the written agreement.
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