Cases

Interim Relief Maintenance Pending Suit Costs Legal Services Payment Orders

SM v BA (No 2: Maintenance Pending Suit) [2025] EWFC 28

Judgment date: 19 February 2025 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2025/28 Nicholas Allen KC, sitting as a deputy High Court judge. Application to increase maintenance pending suit (MPS) in ‘super-rich’ financial remedies case. Overview This judgment follows that in SM v BA (Legal Services Payment Order) [2025] EWFC

Interim Relief Maintenance Pending Suit

DSD v MJW (Costs of MPS) [2025] EWFC 119 (B)

Judgment date: 24 April 2025 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2025/119 DDJ David Hodson. Proportionality and maintenance pending suit (MPS), a cautionary tale. In this case the DDJ concluded that the game was very much not worth the candle, and the application turned out to be very

Foreign Assets Non-Disclosure Chattels Adverse Inferences School Fees

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

Periodical Payments Variation Duxbury Capitalisation Needs Enforcement

GH v IH [2025] EWFC 120 (B)

Judgment date: 10 April 2025 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2025/120 District Judge Hatvany. Final hearing on enforcement and variation of 2012 financial remedy order. The primary issue to be determined was the enforcement and variation of a joint lives periodical payments order made in 2012. The

Civil Restraint Orders

Galbraith-Marten v De Renee (Extension of Extended Civil Restraint Order) [2025] EWFC 96

Judgment date: 15 April 2025 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2025/96 Cobb J. Application for an extension of an extended civil restraint order and an application for further financial orders within long-running financial remedy proceedings. Facts The parties had been engaged in litigation in England and Australia in