Cases

Inheritance Act Applications Farms and Country Estates Proprietary Estoppel

Armstrong v Armstrong & Anor (Re Remedy) [2025] EWHC 2054 (Ch)

Mr Andrew Sutcliffe KC sitting as a High Court judge. Judgment considering the appropriate remedy for a claimant who had proved his proprietary estoppel claim and his alternative claim for entitlement under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) 1975 Act.

Agreements Xydhias Pre-Nuptial Agreements Variation Maintenance

HA v EN [2025] EWHC 2436 (Fam)

The Hon. Richard Todd KC (sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge). Court varies Xydhias agreement, imposing significant contingent reduction in maintenance following change in circumstances.

Agreements Pre-Nuptial Agreements Deeds Of Revocation

FO v PN [2025] EWFC 327 (B)

In this judgment, HHJ Edward Hess explores the weight which should be given to pre-nuptial agreements and Deeds of Revocations where the Deed of Revocation is entered into shortly before the demise of a marriage.

Child Maintenance Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications Release from Undertakings

Re A Child (Schedule 1, 1989 Act; Variation) [2025] EWHC 1254 (Fam)

McKendrick J. Final Hearing concerning cross-Schedule 1 and specific issue applications brought by both parties. The High Court dismissed all but the respondent father’s application to release his intermediary from undertakings.

Costs Foreign Language

M & R (Children) (Refusal of Legal Aid Costs) [2025] EWFC 299 (B)

Mr Recorder O’Grady. Judgment in private law Children Act 1989 proceedings which addresses how to properly prepare witness statement evidence on behalf of a non-English speaking party.

Qualified Legal Representative Domestic Abuse

K v P (Criminal Solicitor as Court-Appointed QLR) [2025] EWFC 321

Sir Andrew McFarlane, President of the Family Division. A court-appointed QLR was terminated in children proceedings where the same QLR was acting in a parallel criminal case, as the dual representation undermines the protective aims of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 scheme for vulnerable witnesses.

Costs Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications) Enforcement

DH v RH (No 6) (Application to Set Aside) [2025] EWFC 175

MacDonald J. Ex-tempore judgment handed down almost 12 months after the final order had been made. W had made various applications following the final order, including to set aside the final order and to commit H, whilst H in response to W’s failure to comply had also made multiple applications.