LIN v PAR [2025] EWFC 401

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2025/401?query=lin+par

MR JUSTICE PEEL

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Peel J. Final hearing in financial remedy proceedings. The couple's 2002 draft consent order had not been sealed by the court, but the parties had acted upon it with the belief that it had been formalised. Peel J determined that it constituted a Xydhias agreement.

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