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Report of the Duxbury Working Party (provisional), September 2024

Report of the Duxbury Working Party (provisional), September 2024

Provisional report: This report has been prepared without any prior public consultation. It is published provisionally to allow interested parties to respond. Responses should be emailed to j.rainer@qeb.co.uk by 1 November 2024 and will be considered by the Working Party ahead of publication of our final

A v M (No 2) [2024] EWFC 214

Judgment date: 01 August 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/214 Sir Jonathan Cohen. Dispute over enforcement of a FR order giving W a share of the proceeds the husband received from a private equity fund where part of the investments in that fund were carried into a

DH v RH (No 4) (Costs) [2024] EWFC 114

Judgment date: 24 May 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/114 MacDonald J. Costs judgment following hearing in contentious case involving costs amounting to 23% of the assets. For previous judgments in this case, see below. By the time of this hearing, the costs amounted to £1m for

DH v RH (No 3) (Final Hearing) [2024] EWFC 79

Judgment date: 18 April 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/79 MacDonald J. Final hearing in contentious case involving high legal costs and allegations of wanton dissipation. W was aged 55 and H 58. Married July 1995. Two children aged 18 and 16 respectively. The parties had lived

RN v TT [2024] EWFC 264 (B)

Judgment date: 14 June 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/264 HHJ Hess. Facts W (51) and H (49) cohabited in a flat in W’s sole name from late 2003 and married in 2004. W was a GP. H was an occasional painter and decorator but

Till Debt Do Us Part: Bankruptcy and Financial Remedies

Till Debt Do Us Part: Bankruptcy and Financial Remedies

Financial remedies practitioners are well-accustomed to advising parties in straitened financial circumstances. Often the central question is how to stretch the available resources to ensure both parties have a roof over their heads. However, when one or both parties find themselves in serious financial difficulty, a less familiar issue may

Who’s Courtney? And Is She Helpful?

Who’s Courtney? And Is She Helpful?

On 10 September 2024, the first ever audio-visual legal library – demonstrating the key hearings and processes in English financial family law – arrived. Twenty years after YouTube landed, it is now possible to view the practical activity within an FDR, for example. Unlike the well-known digital libraries supplied by the international