Cases

Validity of marriage Appeals Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)

Re RA (Appeal: Validity of a Marriage: Finding of Fact) [2024] EWHC 1144 (Fam)

Judgment date: 15 May 2024 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2024/1144.html Henke J. Successful appeal of a fact-finding, despite such an appeal being ‘notoriously difficult’. Facts The parties entered into a relationship in 1995. They were Islamically married on 4 August 1999 and a civil

Personal Injury Awards Mortgages Financial Remedies Court (FRC) Costs

C v S [2024] EWFC 109

Judgment date: 15 May 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/109 Peel J. H’s D11 application in relation to the implementation of a final order in matrimonial finance proceedings. The funds which were the subject of this application were £900,000 held by H for the benefit

Stay of Proceedings NCDR

NA v LA [2024] EWFC 113

Judgment date: 24 May 2024 Nicholas Allen KC sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge. A ‘paradigm’ case for the court to exercise its new powers under FPR 3.4 to stay proceedings for the parties to engage in NCDR. The court heard the return date of two orders: (1)

Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act Appeals

TY v XA [2024] EWFC 96

Judgment date: 24 April 2024 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2024/96.html Moor J. Ripples from the decision in Potanin v Potanina [2024] UKSC 3. Mr Justice Moor reiterated that Potanin had not changed the basic test for the grant of leave to apply for financial

Costs Trusts

GW v GH [2023] EWFC 298 (B)

Judgment date: 12 October 2023 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2023/298.html District Judge Napier held that the best interests of the children were the first but not the only consideration in MRC 1973 s 25. The CAO had not specified ‘private’ education, and the FRC