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BC v BC [2025] EWFC 236
Peel J. Save for four specific matters, parties cannot refer to what happened at the pFDR. The Financial Remedies Court – Primary Principles paragraph 8 issued by Mostyn J and HHJ Hess goes too far by saying that the court should be told that offers were made and that an was indication given.

What Is the True Extent of FDR Privilege?
In L v O (Stay of Order; Hadkinson Order; Security for Costs) [2024] EWFC 6 (26 January 2024) Cobb J considered whether a judge hearing a Barder (or Thwaite) application can/should be made aware of what took place at the FDR appointment where the original order was agreed and
AP v BP & Ors (financial remedies – appeal – disclosure – privilege) [2023] EWFC 169
Judgment date: 09 March 2023
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2023/169
HHJ Vincent. The facts are as stated in this summary. On the husband’s discovery of the wife’s agreement with the intervenors he sought disclosure of the first agreement. W and the intervenors asserted that it
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