VP v SP [2025] EWFC 447 (B)
Deputy District Judge Cassidy Hope. Judgment in financial remedy proceedings, addressing needs-based distribution where one party is the primary carer of a disabled adult child.
Needs
VP v SP [2025] EWFC 447 (B)
https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2025/447.html
MRU v ECR (Financial Remedies) [2025] EWFC 218 (B)
Deputy District Judge Rose. Final hearing in financial remedy proceedings. The judge dealt with issues of conduct, cost orders and transparency.
OO v QQ [2025] EWFC 310 (B)
HHJ Hyde KC. Final hearing in financial remedy proceedings. The husband had failed to engage with most of the process. The case was determined on a needs basis given the wife’s terminal cancer diagnosis.
NI v AD [2025] EWHC 2997 (Fam)
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2025/2997?court=ewhc%2Ffam
Special Contributions: ‘Genius’, Guesswork and Gender Discrimination
This article revisits the contested terrain of ‘special contribution’, and questions whether it retains any legitimate role in contemporary financial remedy jurisprudence. It argues that the concept is both theoretically discriminatory and practically uncertain.
OO v QQ [2025] EWFC 310 (B)
https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2025/310.html