IC v AD [2026] EWFC 224
20 July 2026. HHJ Hess (sitting as a deputy High Court judge). Final hearing to consider the extent to which the terms of a pre-nuptial agreement should be upheld following an assessment of the parties' needs.
Duxbury Capitalisation
Thirsk v Thirsk & Ors [2026] EWHC 1501 (Ch)
15 May 2026. Cusworth J. The claimant sought reasonable financial provision under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 following the death of her husband.
Collardeau v Fuchs [2025] EWFC 307
Poole J. Enforcement and variation: the court quantified arrears, discharged and capitalised the respondent husband's mortgage undertaking, replaced multiple undertakings with quantified periodical payments, and ordered immediate enforcement where H frustrated a sealed final financial remedy order.
Is Duxbury Dead?
The Spring 2025 issue of this journal led off with the eagerly awaited, 21-page Final Report of the Duxbury Working Party ([2025] 1 FRJ 3). As one would expect from its distinguished authors, the report is engaging, well written and skilfully argued, albeit that for reasons I shall advance hereafter
VTY v GDB [2025] EWFC 110 (B)
Judgment date: 24 April 2025
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2025/110
Recorder Taylor. Final hearing in a financial remedy application which concerned issues of non-disclosure and allegations of asset concealment in different countries. The matter also involved foreign litigation which appeared to undermine the existing proceedings in
GH v IH [2025] EWFC 120 (B)
Judgment date: 10 April 2025
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2025/120
District Judge Hatvany. Final hearing on enforcement and variation of 2012 financial remedy order. The primary issue to be determined was the enforcement and variation of a joint lives periodical payments order made in 2012. The
Report of the Duxbury Working Party (final), November 2024
A provisional version of this report was published on 2 October 2024 and invited representations for consideration by the Working Party ahead of publication of this final report. Such representations as were received are summarised in Appendix 6, and in a few instances in alterations to the text of the