Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)

The Mini-Budget Economic Crisis – What Does This Mean for Financial Remedy Applications?

The Mini-Budget Economic Crisis – What Does This Mean for Financial Remedy Applications?

We have all read the news and seen the market’s reaction to the so-called “mini-budget.” The Bank of England, according to many political commentators (this is by no means a political blog!) have effectively bailed out pension funds by setting aside £65bn to buy bonds over the next week

Goodyear v Goodyear (Deceased) [2022] EWFC 96

Judgment date: 12 August 2022 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2022/96 HHJ Farquhar. Application by the husband to set aside a pension sharing order (‘PSO’) following the death of the wife. The application was opposed by the executor’s of the wife’s estate. The fundamental issue was

Simon v Simon & Level (Joinder) (Rev1) [2022] EWFC 29

Judgment date: 21 March 2022 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2022/29.html Nicholas Cusworth QC. Convoluted procedural history in which a consent order was sealed by the court without knowledge of other relevant applications, and W received no liquid capital capable of being used to repay

BT v CU [2021] EWFC 87: Barder, Thwaite, Drafting Lump Sums and Anonymisation

BT v CU [2021] EWFC 87: Barder, Thwaite, Drafting Lump Sums and Anonymisation

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2021/87.html Sometimes in law, as in life, things do not turn out expectedly. BT v CU was intended to be a test case for whether COVID was capable of being a Barder event. H’s argument was that the pandemic

BT v CU [2021] EWFC 87

Judgment date: 01 November 2021 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2021/87.html

BT v CU [2021] EWFC 87

Judgment date: 01 November 2021 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2021/87.html H’s application to set aside financial remedy order on basis that the downturn in his company’s value during the covid-19 pandemic constituted a Barder event (Barder v Barder [1988] AC 20). In

AB v CD [2016] EWHC 10 (Fam)

Judgment date: 11 January 2016 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2016/10.html