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.
Needs
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
Helliwell v Entwistle [2025] EWCA Civ 1055
King, Moylan and Snowden LJJ. The Court of Appeal allowed the husband’s appeal against the final order made by Francis J on 15 March 2024, emphasising the importance of full and frank disclosure in pre-nuptial agreements when agreed by the parties.
PZ v ZD (Financial Remedies: Needs: Adverse Inferences: Taking of Evidence from Outside the Jurisdiction) [2025] EWFC 171 (B)
Judgment date: 20 March 2025
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2025/171
Judgment by DDJ G Evans in a modest asset case involving significant non-disclosure and the taking of evidence from a respondent in a non-Hague Convention jurisdiction (here, Pakistan).
Background
The parties had a medium-length marriage of
MNV v CNV [2025] EWFC 176 (B)
Judgment date: 19 June 2025
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2025/176
DDJ Bradshaw. Drastic change in personal circumstances results in add-back in small money case.
Overview
DDJ Bradshaw considered arguments relating to the add-back of dissipated assets in a modest FR case. Shortly after separation the husband