TY v XA (No 3) [2025] EWFC 350
Cusworth J. Wife is granted a costs order for her ‘disproportionate’ legal costs on the standard basis due to husband’s ‘normal’ litigation misconduct.
Cases
Hampshire v Bonser [2025] EWCC 55
HHJ Owen. Claim for a declaration of beneficial interest in the net sale proceeds of a bed and breakfast come former family home.
Sandra Ozturk v Yilmaz Ozturk [2025] EWFC 333 (B)
HHJ Moreton. Suspended committal activated: 28 days’ immediate imprisonment for wilful breach of a Form E disclosure order in financial remedy proceedings.
PMC v Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board [2025] EWCA Civ 1126
Sir Geoffrey Vos MR, Warby LJ and Whipple LJ allowed an appeal against the refusal of an anonymity order in a child's clinical negligence claim, confirming that courts retain a limited common law power to derogate from open justice where strictly necessary to protect vulnerable individuals.
Armstrong v Armstrong [2024] EWHC 2989 (Ch)
Andrew Sutcliffe KC (sitting as a judge of the High Court) upheld a proprietary estoppel claim arising from a broken promise that a son would inherit the family farm, finding that assurances had been relied upon to the claimant's detriment over 35 years.
A v B (Refusal of Application for Stay of Divorce Petition) [2025] EWFC 377 (B)
HHJ Judge Cope. Refusal of application for stay of divorce petition.
Louise Tickle & Anor v The BBC & Ors [2025] EWCA Civ 42
Sir Geoffrey Vos MR, King LJ and Warby LJ. While anonymisation of judges is theoretically possible, it is highly unlikely. The integrity of the justice system depends on the judge sitting in public and being named, even if they sit in private.