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What Financial Remedy Lawyers Need to Know About Emojis ❓👨👩🤔🧐🌝

What Financial Remedy Lawyers Need to Know About Emojis ❓👨👩🤔🧐🌝

Emojis play a significant part in digital communications, including casual messaging, social media posts, and increasingly, professional communications. When we are reviewing historical messages, understanding what the emojis were intended to mean could become an essential part of identifying what was discussed and/or agreed at that time. What is

A v M (No 3) [2024] EWFC 299

Judgment date: 25 October 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/299 Cohen J. Application by H to strike out W’s application to set aside a final order in financial remedies proceedings on the ground of H’s misrepresentation. Background For a full summary of the facts and

ED v OF [2024] EWFC 297

Judgment date: 09 September 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/297 Cusworth J. Financial remedy proceedings relating to the valuation and division of a high-value music catalogue as a key matrimonial asset. Background H and W were married for 16 years and had two children. H was a

The End of the Non-Dom Tax Status: Time Now to End Family Law Domicile Jurisdiction

The End of the Non-Dom Tax Status: Time Now to End Family Law Domicile Jurisdiction

Overview Domicile has been a fundamental basis of jurisdiction in English law including English family law. But it is intrinsically backward-looking, archaic in its concepts, thoroughly unknown or at best misunderstood by the population, differently defined abroad and at odds with many other countries including the EU. With the non-domicile

JL v NN [2024] EWHC 1489

Judgment date: 25 April 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2024/1489 Williams J allowed W’s appeal on the basis that the judge failed to explicitly evaluate critical evidence and reach clear conclusions. Williams J confirmed that the burden of proof for fraud and dishonesty in the

Open Offers: Achieving More or Seeking Less

Open Offers: Achieving More or Seeking Less

The obligation on parties to negotiate openly and reasonably within financial remedy proceedings – and the consequences of not doing so – are well known. They were perhaps set out most clearly in OG v AG [2021] 1 FLR 1105 per Mostyn J: ‘[31] It is important that I enunciate this principle