Sorrell v Sorrell [2005] EWHC 1717 (Fam)

This article revisits the contested terrain of ‘special contribution’, and questions whether it retains any legitimate role in contemporary financial remedy jurisprudence. It argues that the concept is both theoretically discriminatory and practically uncertain.

Judgment date: 14 June 2023 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2023/1544 Roberts J. Final hearing in financial remedy proceedings with issues around spousal maintenance, offshore trusts and non-matrimonial assets. Background The parties met as students in 2003 in Russia and married in 2004. They had essentially no

Judgment date: 05 April 2023 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2023/68 Moor J. The parties were Danish. H was aged 57 and W aged 49. Children aged 18, 16, and 16. Married 2004, marriage broke down in 2019. H was CEO of a drugs manufacturer but staged a