Cases

Conduct

Monisha Mahtani v Vivek Hariram Mahtani [2025] EWFC 35

Judgment date: 16 January 2025 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2025/35 James Ewins KC, sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge. A difficult case where the respondent husband failed to attend any hearing or make any disclosure. All the court could do was draw inferences to prevent a

Costs Bundles Efficient Conduct

T v T and Others (Disregard for Procedural Rules, Adjournment) [2025] EWFC 14 (B)

Judgment date: 29 January 2025 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2025/14 Recorder Chandler KC was forced to adjourn a three-day hearing in the face of W’s legal aid solicitors failing to comply with the Family Court’s procedures. The judge made it clear that where a

NCDR Costs

DF v YB (No 2: Costs) [2025] EWFC 76 (B)

Judgment date: 31 March 2025 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2025/76 Mr Nicholas Allen KC. Application for costs following a final hearing. Facts On 14 February 2025, Nicholas Allen KC handed down judgment in relation to the final hearing, which is published as DF v YB [2025]

Dishonesty arbitration Disclosure Fraud

On v On [2024] EWFC 379

Judgment date: 11 December 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/379 HHJ Booth (now retired), sitting as a High Court judge, considered whether the duty of full and frank disclosure ends at the arbitration hearing, the judgment, and also whether the arbitral award should be treated as a

Loans Tax Debts Add-Backs

DF v YB [2025] EWFC 46 (B)

Judgment date: 14 February 2025 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2025/46 Recorder Nicholas Allen KC. Judgment following four-day final hearing, in which the parties agreed that it was a sharing case and that the net capital assets should be divided equally. The dispute centred around issues of

Anonymity and Transparency Costs

D Culligan v A Culligan (No.2) (Costs and Anonymity) [2025] EWFC 26

Judgment date: 26 February 2025 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2025/26 Macdonald J. Background Judgment dealing solely with the issues of costs and whether the substantive judgment in the financial remedies proceedings handed down on 14 January 2025 should be anonymised. Costs W’s costs in this case

Setting Aside Transactions Enforcement

Collardeau v Fuchs & Anor [2025] EWFC 36

Judgment date: 19 February 2025 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2025/36 Poole J. Finding of a sham lease within enforcement proceedings of a final financial remedy order. Facts A final order was made in June 2023, followed by a series of enforcement orders by Knowles J. An application