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.
Transparency
PMC v Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board [2025] EWCA Civ 1126
Sir Geoffrey Vos MR, Warby LJ and Whipple LJ allowed an appeal against the refusal of an anonymity order in a child's clinical negligence claim, confirming that courts retain a limited common law power to derogate from open justice where strictly necessary to protect vulnerable individuals.
Louise Tickle & Anor v The BBC & Ors [2025] EWCA Civ 42
Sir Geoffrey Vos MR, King LJ and Warby LJ. While anonymisation of judges is theoretically possible, it is highly unlikely. The integrity of the justice system depends on the judge sitting in public and being named, even if they sit in private.
RC v FP [2025] EWFC 123
Mr Nicholas Allen KC sitting as deputy High Court judge. Judgment in private law children proceedings extending transparency order until child’s 18th birthday.
Re-multiplied Propagation
In this article I shall refer to those financial remedy cases heard in private to which s 12 Administration of Justice Act 1960 does not apply as mainstream financial remedy cases. As is well-known, s 12 imposes an automatic restriction on publishing the details of any financial remedy case which
Tickle v The Father & Ors [2025] EWFC 160
Judgment date: 09 June 2025
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2025/160
Henke J. Procedural judgment in children proceedings reaffirming legal protections for journalistic sources and highlighting the limits of transparency in the family courts.
Henke J delivered a discrete procedural judgment following a fact-finding hearing on 2 May
Let’s Be Clear: The Transparency Reporting Pilot for Financial Remedy Proceedings
One of the most important considerations for anyone with significant wealth, or who has a public profile and who is getting divorced, is the subject of confidentiality and privacy. It is often a key factor of any such client who is considering where and how to get divorced, and it