Cases

Financial Remedies Court (FRC) Striking Out Applications Valuation of Shares Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)

AB v CD [2022] EWFC 116

Judgment date: 29 July 2022 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2022/116.html Roberts J (‘the judge’) dealt with an application to set aside a consent order made in financial remedy proceedings, and a responding application to strike out or summarily dismiss H’s application. The parties

Quashie v Solomon [2022] UKPC 34

Judgment date: 30 September 2022 https://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKPC/2022/34.html The Privy Council heard an appeal concerning promissory and proprietary estoppel and the time for enforcing interests held under constructive trusts. Mr and Mrs Solomon married in 1978 and divorced in 1981. They had one

Chattels Gifts Cohabitation Summary Judgment

Ralph v Given [2022] EWHC 2395 (KB)

Judgment date: 23 September 2022 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/KB/2022/2395.html Freedman J. Claimant’s application for summary judgment in relation to application to deliver up an Aston Martin DBX and a Range Rover Sport or damages for conversion. C argued these were gifts. The

Divorce Jurisdiction Domicile Forum

SA v FA [2022] EWFC 115

Judgment date: 09 September 2022 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2022/115 HHJ Hess. Judgment concerning divorce proceedings, domicile and the most appropriate forum. The parties met and married in England; the W was originally from South Africa. They had moved to the UAE in 2008 and remained there

Principle of Finality Judicial Discretion Appeals

AIC Ltd (Respondent) v Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (Appellant) [2022] UKSC 16

Judgment date: 15 June 2022 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/uksc/2022/16 Lords Hodge, Briggs, Sales, Hamblen and Leggatt. What should a judge do when, shortly after oral judgment but before a formal written minute of the order has been sealed, one of the parties asks the judge to

Child Support Appeal Procedure Child Support

CF v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2022] UKUT 271 (AAC)

Judgment date: 10 October 2022 https://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKUT/AAC/2022/271.html Upper Tribunal Judge Wikeley. Decision in relation to proper procedure in child maintenance appeals. First tier judge had determined F’s appeal (against decision that child was still a qualifying child) on paper without

Duration of the Marriage Agreements Setting Aside a Decree Nisi Rescission of Divorce Decree

Cazalet v Abu-Zalaf [2022] EWFC 119

Judgment date: 17 October 2022 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2022/119 Mostyn J. W’s application for (i) the recission of decree nisi, (ii) the dismissal of the underlying divorce petition and (iii) the set aside of the financial order made subsequent to that. The parties had been