RC v FP [2025] EWFC 123
Mr Nicholas Allen KC sitting as deputy High Court judge. Judgment in private law children proceedings extending transparency order until child’s 18th birthday.
Cases
Grijns v Grijns & Ors [2025] EWHC 1413 (Ch)
Master Bowles (sitting in retirement). Failed proprietary estoppel claim by son who lived in his parents’ Chelsea property for over 20 years.
BC v BC [2025] EWFC 236
Peel J. Save for four specific matters, parties cannot refer to what happened at the pFDR. The Financial Remedies Court – Primary Principles paragraph 8 issued by Mostyn J and HHJ Hess goes too far by saying that the court should be told that offers were made and that an was indication given.
Ozturk v Ozturk (Reissue 2) [2025] EWFC 162 (B)
HHJ Moreton. Committal proceedings relating to a husband who failed to complete his Form E in financial remedy proceedings.
Culligan v Culligan (No 3) (Terms of Order) [2025] EWFC 186
MacDonald J. The court determined the terms of an order following a final hearing in January, which saw an equal division of the matrimonial assets following a 40-year marriage, including Wells sharing.
JB v RB [2025] EWFC 194 (B)
District Judge Akers. This case involved final financial remedy proceedings between the Wife and the Husband following the breakdown of a long marriage. The dispute centred on the division of the former family home, spousal maintenance, and the classification of certain debts as ‘soft loans’.
Re HMP [2025] EWCA Civ 824
Carr LCJ, King LJ and Warby LJ. The Court of Appeal allowed an appeal against a disclosure order in concluded care proceedings, confirming that the open justice principle did not extend to media applications unconnected to the court's decision-making in the case.