Cases

Disclosure Conduct Maintenance Pending Suit

Baker v Baker [2022] EWFC 15

Judgment date: 04 February 2022 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2022/15.html Mostyn J. Application by W for maintenance pending suit following Rattan v Kuwad [2021] EWCA Civ 1. Held, court entitled to make assumptions about H’s ability to pay in face of ‘lamentable’ disclosure.

Interim Relief Maintenance Pending Suit Legal Services Payment Orders

MG v GM [2022] EWFC 8

Judgment date: 01 March 2022 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2022/8.html MPS and LSPO application by W in a case described by Peel J as 'a battle royale' ([3]). Each party denied holding liquid assets, and asserted the other had access to significant

Publicity and Confidentiality Variation Applications Executory Orders Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)

BT v CU [2021] EWFC 87

Judgment date: 01 November 2021 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2021/87.html

Publicity and Confidentiality 'Thwaite Jurisdiction' Executory Orders Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)

BT v CU [2021] EWFC 87

Judgment date: 01 November 2021 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2021/87.html H’s application to set aside financial remedy order on basis that the downturn in his company’s value during the covid-19 pandemic constituted a Barder event (Barder v Barder [1988] AC 20). In

Security for costs Costs

MG v AR [2021] EWHC 3133 (Fam)

Judgment date: 16 November 2021 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2021/3063.html Mostyn J. In the first reported judgment on security for costs since the advent of the FPR, Mostyn J gives a helpful review of the applicable principles in family cases. Unlike in civil case

TLATA Applications Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act

Aldoukhi v Abdullah [2021] EWHC 3086 (Fam)

Judgment date: 18 November 2021 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2021/3086.html Moor J. W’s applications under TOLATA and Part III MFPA concerning three properties in London. H and W were Kuwaiti nationals. W had received a financial award from the Kuwait Court in 2019.