Cases

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.

Duxbury Capitalisation Enforcement Variation Applications Release from Undertakings Periodical Payments

Collardeau v Fuchs [2025] EWFC 307

Poole J. Enforcement and variation: the court quantified arrears, discharged and capitalised the respondent husband's mortgage undertaking, replaced multiple undertakings with quantified periodical payments, and ordered immediate enforcement where H frustrated a sealed final financial remedy order.

Child Maintenance

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v LR & Anor [2025] EWFC 271 (B)

DJ Guirguis. Exercising the power contained in s 32 of the Child Support Act 1991, the court set aside a transfer of property and injuncted the respondents from further dispositions to defeat child maintenance claims.

Child Maintenance

Re: H (A Child) (Appeal: Child Maintenance)

Henke J. A failed appeal by the father against the extension of the duration of a child maintenance order beyond the age of eighteen years.

Financial Remedies

G v N [2025] EWFC 286 (B)

District Judge Shackleton. The case concerns an application for a financial remedies order following divorce between a husband and wife. The order sought, and granted, was that the marital home be transferred into the husband’s sole name following the wife’s departure nearly 30 years previously.