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Goddard-Watts v Goddard-Watts [2023] EWCA Civ 115

Judgment date: 15 February 2023 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewca/civ/2023/115 Lady Justice Macur, Lady Justice Nicola Davies and Lady Justice Carr. W’s appeal of order made by Sir Jonathan Cohen in January 2022 (see previous case summary) using the ‘Kingdon approach’. On two separate occasions

XO v YO & Anor [2022] EWFC 114

Judgment date: 22 September 2022 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2022/114.html HHJ Hess. Financial remedies decision concerning whether English court had jurisdiction to determine a claim in respect of immovable property situated outside England where the claim is based on equity; and can adverse inferences

X v Y [2022] EWFC 95

Judgment date: 15 August 2022 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2022/95 HHJ Hess. Financial remedy judgment in which the wife’s capital claims were adjourned for a decade in view of dishonest fabrication of bank statements by H and uncertainty as to assets. Judgment published ‘to draw wider

Dodgy Digital Documents: Where Are We Now? Where Are We Going?

Dodgy Digital Documents: Where Are We Now? Where Are We Going?

In the sun-kissed, halcyon days of late 2019 when Brexit had not yet taken effect and a corona was a halo of gas seen around the sun during an eclipse, a fevered discussion was taking place on Twitter between family lawyers regarding the increasing frequency with which we were seeing

Villiers v Villiers [2022] EWCA Civ 772

Judgment date: 10 June 2022 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2022/772.html Moylan LJ, Coulson LJ and Arnold LJ. Appeal concerning an order by Mostyn J dismissing W’s application under s 27 of MCA 1973. Case provides useful content on the interpretation and application of

The Insolvency Service v Becker & Anor [2020] EWHC 2546 (Fam)

Judgment date: 25 September 2020 Mostyn J. The Insolvency Service brought criminal proceedings against the tennis player Boris Becker, alleging that he had failed to disclose all his assets. One count of alleged non-disclosure related to the existence of the BB Settlement, a trust established pursuant to an order under

Goddard-Watts v Goddard Watts [2022] EWHC 711 (Fam)

Judgment date: 03 February 2022 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2022/711.html Sir Jonathan Cohen. Second rehearing of W’s application for financial remedy orders, two previous orders having been set aside due to H’s non-disclosure. W’s application based on H’s knowledge at