Adverse Inferences

PZ v ZD (Financial Remedies: Needs: Adverse Inferences: Taking of Evidence from Outside the Jurisdiction) [2025] EWFC 171 (B)

Judgment date: 20 March 2025 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2025/171 Judgment by DDJ G Evans in a modest asset case involving significant non-disclosure and the taking of evidence from a respondent in a non-Hague Convention jurisdiction (here, Pakistan). Background The parties had a medium-length marriage of

Adverse Inferences: The Court’s Approach to Valuing Overseas Assets Without Disclosure

Adverse Inferences: The Court’s Approach to Valuing Overseas Assets Without Disclosure

This article will consider the court’s approach to adverse inferences in cases where there has been no, minimal or seriously deficient disclosure from one party, particularly in relation to overseas assets. Valuing overseas properties and businesses can be particularly challenging where there has been no engagement and/or no

Sham, Adverse Inferences and the Burden of Proof: Awolowo [2025] EWCA Civ 641

Sham, Adverse Inferences and the Burden of Proof: Awolowo [2025] EWCA Civ 641

It’s often the financial remedy cases involving non-family barristers or judges which are the most interesting. There’s something about an outsider’s perspective which can illuminate legal principle and remind us that, per Mostyn J, ‘the Family Courts are not a desert island’. Lord Sumption put it best

VTY v GDB [2025] EWFC 110 (B)

Judgment date: 24 April 2025 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2025/110 Recorder Taylor. Final hearing in a financial remedy application which concerned issues of non-disclosure and allegations of asset concealment in different countries. The matter also involved foreign litigation which appeared to undermine the existing proceedings in

Abigail Laura Williams v Andrew John Williams [2024] EWFC 275

Judgment date: 06 August 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/275 Final order of Moor J in financial remedy proceedings involving a husband who had continually breached court orders, failed to attend hearings, and provided unreliable and ‘demonstrably untrue’ evidence. Background H (56) and W (59) married in

TYB v CAR (Non-Disclosure) [2023] EWFC 261 (B)

Judgment date: 16 December 2023 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2023/261.html DDJ Hodson. What does the court do with the non-discloser? Final hearing involving a short marriage with a child almost four. This was a needs case. H admitted earnings of £60,000 pcm, spending

McLean v Mclean & Ors [2023] EWHC 1735 (Fam)

Judgment date: 10 July 2023 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2023/1735 Roberts J. An appeal of a final order by the H and five companies of which the H was the sole or majority shareholder following a final hearing conducted in their absence. Includes consideration of materially