EK v DK & Ors [2023] EWHC 1829 (Fam)11 May 2023

Mr Justice Francis. Application by W to set aside consent order dated March 2018 on basis of H’s non-disclosure.This was a long marriage with three teenage/young adult children at the time of separation. The Trustees of two trusts, the LK (No 2 Sett…

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• Variation of Settlements
• Joinder of Third Parties
• Consent Orders
• Liquidity
• Valuations
• Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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• Charlotte Lanning

Rose v Rose & Ors [2022] EWFC 19225 November 2022

His Honour Judge Booth (sitting as a Judge of the High Court pursuant to s 9 SCA 1981).How should the court ‘deal with a respondent husband who has been dishonest throughout, has failed to comply with court orders, has failed to provide relevant fin…

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• Conduct
• Variation of Settlements
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• Calum Smith

(1) Dixon (2) Dixon v The Crown Estate Commissioners [2022] EWHC 325622 December 2022

Judge Hodge KC. The claimants sought vesting orders in respect of two properties, following the striking off and dissolution of the company (in which the claimants had previously been shareholders) which was the registered proprietor. The Crown disclaimed…

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• Companies
• Proprietary Estoppel
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• Rebekah Batt

Oil on Troubled Waters

Hudson v Hathway [2022] EWCA Civ 1648 is another dispute in the seemingly never-ending conveyor-belt of cases about real ownership of a home. The property – Picnic House – (the litigation being anything but a picnic) was upon its acquisition i…

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• TOLATA
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• Gwynfor Evans

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ARQ v YAQ [2022] EWFC 12819 May 2022

Moor J. H was a highly successful retired businessman. He married W in 2005 in what was an entirely conventional second marriage. Alongside a significant portfolio of assets, H owned a sheep and cattle farm in Country C, named 'BT'. In 2010, the parties m…

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• Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
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• Christie Elizabeth O’Connell

HA v WA v BV [2022] EWFC 11027 September 2022

Sir Jonathan Cohen. Issue between the parties in relation to beneficial ownership of a property held in the W’s sole name. H’s case was that the property belonged legally and beneficially to the W, where the W’s case was that the property was beneficially…

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• Rebekah Batt

Hudson v Hathway [2022] EWHC 631 (QB)

Before I sat down to read Hudson v Hathway [2022] EWHC 631 (QB) and write this blog, I was primed ready to come up with a flashy introductory sentence. Something along the lines of, “once in a generation something so monumental happens in the Law of…

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• Holly Symonds

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A v V [2022] EWHC 3501 (Fam)8 July 2022

Mr Justice Francis. A ‘relatively straightforward’ application pursuant to Schedule 1. F’s costs were c.£3.8m and M’s were £1.7m, despite F attending the final hearing as a litigant in person. F ran the millionaire’…

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• Millionaire's Defence
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• Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
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• Rebekah Batt