Striking Out Applications

M v B [2025] EWFC 182

Judgment date: 25 June 2025 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2025/182 Sir Jonathan Cohen (sitting as a judge of the High Court). Financial remedy proceedings considering the court’s power to strike out applications under FPR 4.4, having regard to the effect of FPR 9.9A. The

Ogbedo v Oghenerume-Taiga [2024] EWHC 3193 (Fam)

Judgment date: 12 December 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2024/3193 Sir Jonathan Cohen. This is a successful application of NO (herein referred to as ‘F’) to strike out MT’s (herein referred to as ‘M’) application for nullity pursuant to FPR 4.4 on the basis

Ma v Roux: Yes, You Can Strike Out a Set Aside Application

Ma v Roux: Yes, You Can Strike Out a Set Aside Application

This is a response to the FRJ blog post by Nicholas Allen KC and Philip Tait, ‘Ma v Roux: Can You Strike Out a Set Aside Application?’ (25 September 2024), which posed the question as to whether the court is empowered to strike out an application to set aside a

A v M (No 3) [2024] EWFC 299

Judgment date: 25 October 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/299 Cohen J. Application by H to strike out W’s application to set aside a final order in financial remedies proceedings on the ground of H’s misrepresentation. Background For a full summary of the facts and

Ma v Roux: Can You Strike Out a Set Aside Application?

Ma v Roux: Can You Strike Out a Set Aside Application?

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2024/1917 It was settled in Wyatt v Vince [2015] UKSC 14, [2015] 1 FLR 972 that the court cannot strike-out/give summary judgment on a legally recognisable application for a financial remedy order as an applicant is entitled to have such an

PF v QF [2024] EWFC 10 (B)

Judgment date: 15 January 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/10 HHJ Reardon. Application to strike out W’s FR claim resulting from her bigamy (ex turpi causa). Background At the time of the parties’ marriage in Bangladesh in December 2001, W was not yet divorced from

H v GH [2023] EWFC 235

Judgment date: 07 December 2023 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2023/235.html Simon Colton KC. Strike out of an application to extend time for payment of a lump sum. On 10 December 2018 Roberts J ordered (by consent) that H was to pay a lump sum