Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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A v M (No 3) [2024] EWFC 29925 October 2024
Cohen J. Application by H to strike out W’s application to set aside a final order in financial remedies proceedings on the ground of H’s misrepresentation.
- Cases
- Disclosure
- Conduct
- Striking Out Applications
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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Ma v Roux: Can You Strike Out a Set Aside Application?
It was settled in Wyatt v Vince [2015] UKSC 14 that the court cannot strike-out/give summary judgment on a legally recognisable application for a financial remedy order as an applicant is entitled to have such an application heard on its merits. But is that the end of the matter? In Ma v Roux [2024] EWHC 1917 (Fam) Francis J heard an appeal from HHJ Reardon.
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- Striking Out Applications
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
!25/09/2024 17:32
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Simon v (1) Simon (2) Integro Funding Limited (‘Level’) [2024] EWFC 1602 July 2024
Peel J. The last instalment in the *Simon v Simon & Level* family court litigation. Level’s civil claim is yet to be determined. Peel J found that the family court cannot make a distributive order upon application of an intervenor to require one party to pay the other party such sum as the third-party intervenor says it is entitled to.
- Cases
- Litigation Funding
- Joinder of Third Parties
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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Potanina v Potanin [2021] EWCA Civ 70213 May 2021
King, David Richards and Moylan LJJ. The second in the trio of Potanina v Potanin decisions, these case summaries should be read in order. This one is the Court of Appeal decision where Lady Justice King handed down the unanimous decision, allowing W’s appeal against Mr Justice Cohen’s order setting aside the grant of leave to bring a claim under Part III of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984.
- Cases
- Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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Potanin v Potanina [2019] EWHC 2956 (Fam)8 November 2019
Cohen J. The first in the trio of Potanina v Potanin decisions.
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- Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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Williams v Williams [2024] EWHC 733 (Fam)10 April 2024
Sir Andrew McFarlane P. Erroneous application for a final order of divorce made by the solicitors for the applicant wife, in absence of the instruction or authority of their client.
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- Delay
- Decree Nisi/Decree Final
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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Re RA (Appeal: Validity of a Marriage: Finding of Fact) [2024] EWHC 1144 (Fam)15 May 2024
Henke J. Successful appeal of a fact-finding, despite such an appeal being ‘notoriously difficult’.
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- Validity of marriage
- Appeals
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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‘Known Unknowns and Unknown Unknowns’ – Can a Change in the Law Be a Barder Event?
Can a change in domestic law, resulting from judicial tergiversation, ever satisfy the Barder test? The answer to this question depends, in part, on how widely or narrowly the Barder test is interpreted.
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- Barder Applications
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
!04/06/2024 09:00
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Hyslop v Hyslop 2DS 2022/13 & 2DS 2023/0312 July 2023
Judge of Appeal Cross KC, Acting Deemster Horton KC, and Deemster Corlett. Michael Horton KC, one of three Deemsters sitting in the Staff of Government Division in the Isle of Man High Court (‘appeal court’), grapples with an appeal regarding an impossible PSO where the intended recipient of the pension benefits has remarried. The appeal court also addressed the Isle of Man/England and Wales pension lacuna, mutual mistake, the remarriage trap, and the lower court's wrongful declaration of trust to remedy the impossible PSO.
- Cases
- Pensions on Divorce
- Appeals
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
- Trusts
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SY v Personal Representatives of the Estate of DY (Deceased) [2023] EWFC 280 (B)14 August 2023
Recorder Hames KC: Appeal against PSO out of time following death of W allowed and substituted by lump sum order to reflect lost benefit to the Estate for the benefit of the children.
- Cases
- Pensions on Divorce
- Appeals
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)