Compensation Principle

H v W [2023] EWFC 120

Judgment date: 14 July 2023 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2023/120.html HHJ Reardon KC. This case concerns cross-applications regarding a final financial remedy order made in May 2021 (the 2021 order) by Recorder Anderson. This included an application by H for a further lump sum

What Family Lawyers Need to Know about Valuing Mixed Property Portfolios in Financial Remedy Proceedings

What Family Lawyers Need to Know about Valuing Mixed Property Portfolios in Financial Remedy Proceedings

Introduction Over the past decade, a number of cases have come before the Family Court involving property portfolios. These cases have ranged from the seminal case of Prest v Petrodel Resources Ltd & Ors [2013] UKSC 34 through to the case of ND (By her Litigation Friend) v GD [2021]

SS v RS [2023] EWFC 32 (Fam)

Judgment date: 16 March 2023 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2023/32/data.pdf Sir Jonathan Cohen. Application by H, inter alia, for compensation relating to delay in W complying with an undertaking to use her best endeavours to procure the release of H from the mortgage on the

The Compensation Principle and Remuneration for Career ‘Sacrifice’ – TM v KM [2022] EWFC 155

The Compensation Principle and Remuneration for Career ‘Sacrifice’ – TM v KM [2022] EWFC 155

The compensation principle has made a surprising reappearance in the recent case of TM v KM [2022] EWFC 155, as HHJ Hess made an order for the wife to receive £500,000 by way of compensation for the 'relationship-generated sacrifice' [76] that she made in giving up her

TM v KM [2022] EWFC 155

Judgment date: 02 December 2022 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2022/155 HHJ Hess. Application of compensation principle. W was 50 and had attended what many consider to be the finest business school in the world before a highly successful career in investment finance. In 2006 and 2007,