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The Husband v The Wife [2024] EWFC 64 (B)

Judgment date: 15 March 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/64 HHJ Willans. Needs case involving impressive parties with strong and opposing views over what has happened and what constitutes a fair outcome. The parties had agreed: (i) a PSO in respect of H’s pension; (ii)

Re A v B (Schedule 1: Arbitral Award: Appeal) [2024] EWHC 778 (Fam)

Judgment date: 10 April 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2024/778 Cobb J. A root and branch assault leads to the conclusion that the court is not limited to the ‘four corners’ of Schedule 1 and can make orders that require a party to borrow. Background M’

Hersman v De Verchere [2023] EWHC 3481 (Fam)

Judgment date: 30 November 2023 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2023/3481.html Moor J. Successful application by H for W’s committal to prison for non-compliance with orders from 2019 and 2023. This litigation has been ongoing for quite some time with the financial remedy proceedings

What’s the Point of a Judgment? Examples, Authorities and the Panopticon

What’s the Point of a Judgment? Examples, Authorities and the Panopticon

Cast your mind back to the first time you sat in court and heard a judgment handed down, before you became familiar with its content, structure and duration. I can recall sitting as a pupil in the back of an overheated district judge’s chambers in Kent. The final hearing

Hyslop v Hyslop 2DS 2022/13 & 2DS 2023/03

Judgment date: 12 July 2023 https://www.judgments.im/content/J3125.htm 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

Hersman v De Verchere [2024] EWHC 905 (Fam)

Judgment date: 19 April 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2024/905 Moor J. Enforcement proceedings following W’s failure to transfer a ski chalet to H. W previously committed to three months’ imprisonment but has not returned to the UK. H awarded £2.3m on account of

D(R) Day: Today’s Changes to FPR Parts 3 and 28

D(R) Day: Today’s Changes to FPR Parts 3 and 28

FPR Part 3 has historically been underused. This is strange given that: 1. FPR 1.4(1) provides that the court ‘must further the overriding objective by actively managing cases’; and 2. FPR 1.4(2)(f) states that active case management includes ‘encouraging the parties to use a non-court