TLATA Applications

KI v SI (Sham Trusts and Intervenor Proceedings in Financial Remedy Claims) [2026] EWFC 73 (B)

Judgment of District Judge Hatvany at a preliminary issue hearing concerning the determination of whether purported trust deeds in favour of intervenors within financial remedy claims were shams.

The Financial Remedies Court: A New Horizon?

The Financial Remedies Court: A New Horizon?

It is approaching 10 years since HHJ Edward Hess and Joanna Miles published their seminal article which fired the starting gun for the creation of the Financial Remedies Court. The purpose of this article is to reflect upon the possible ways in which the FRC might evolve and develop in the future.

A v N [2025] EWFC 371 (B)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2025/371

Grijns v Grijns & Ors [2025] EWHC 1413 (Ch)

Master Bowles (sitting in retirement). Failed proprietary estoppel claim by son who lived in his parents’ Chelsea property for over 20 years.

Dervis v Deniz [2025] EWHC 902 (Ch)

Judgment date: 11 April 2025 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/ch/2025/902 Edwin Johnson J. TLATA judgment setting out the circumstances in which a new claim can be pursued on appeal, the law regarding the ‘release’ of one’s beneficial interest in property to another joint tenant, and

What’s in a WhatsApp: Can a WhatsApp Message Transfer a Property?

What’s in a WhatsApp: Can a WhatsApp Message Transfer a Property?

The decision of Deputy Insolvency and Company Courts Judge Frith (the judge) in Reid-Roberts and Burke v Mei-Lin and Gudmundsson [2024] EWHC 759 (Ch)[[1]] is one of the first published cases since the decision of the Court of Appeal in Hudson v Hathway [2022] EWCA Civ 1648, [2023] KB

Duncan Needham v Susan Rosemary Ellis [2024] EWCC 29

Judgment date: 15 November 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewcc/2024/29 HHJ Tindal. An unusual case, involving two appeals arising from longstanding TLATA claims involving the former family home. Mr Needham’s application to vary the consent order which was made in 2017 was refused. He sought ‘permission