W v X [2025] EWHC 1696 (Fam)
Schedule 1 'big money' case before Mr Justin Warshaw KC (sitting as a deputy High Court judge) concerning the financial provision of C.
Conduct
Y v Z [2025] EWFC 221
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2025/221?court=ewhc%2Ffam&court=ewfc
Bad Behaviour and Broken Bonds: A Comparison of Conduct in 1973 and 1975 Act Claims
Introduction
Fifty years ago, the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 (1975 Act) was enacted in an expansion of the court’s statutory powers for financial provision on death.[[1]] Two years earlier, Parliament had enacted the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (MCA 1973) to alter the court’s
Y v Z [2025] EWFC 221
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2025/221?court=ewhc%2Ffam&court=ewfc
Simon v Simon [2025] EWFC 89
Judgment date: 07 April 2025
Peel J. Cost judgment from Peel J in ‘highly unusual’ financial remedy proceedings, in which a litigation loan provider successfully applied to be joined and to set aside a consent order which prevented them recovering a loan to W.
Issues
The issue for the court
Culligan v Culligan [2025] EWFC 1
Judgment date: 14 January 2025
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2025/1
MacDonald J. An equal division of the matrimonial assets following a 40-year marriage, including a Wells share in favour of W.
Total assets of £26m. W (63) was a British citizen; H (61) held dual British and
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