Undue Influence

Adjudicating Undue Pressure in Nuptial Agreements

When the court considers the effect of a nuptial agreement, it must consider how pressure may undermine a party’s decision to sign, while recognising why the other party sought it.

PN v SA [2025] EWFC 141

Judgment date: 23 May 2025 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2025/141 Cobb J. Third-largest financial remedy case in the jurisdiction’s history. The judge set aside a separation agreement entered into by W under significant emotional and psychological pressure. Background W (48), H (46). Three children aged between

HP v AP [2023] EWFC 49

Judgment date: 31 March 2023 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2023/49.html HHJ Willans. Application to set aside a consent order on the basis that the H had failed to refer to two historic loans which were secured against a property in his sole legal name,

Enal v Singh & Ors (Trinidad and Tobago) [2022] UKPC 13

Judgment date: 11 April 2022 https://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKPC/2022/13.html Lords Briggs, Kitchin and Hamblen, Lady Rose, and Sir Nicholas Patten. On appeal to the Privy Council from the CA of Trinidad and Tobago. Mr Maharaj, the father of R and S, paid for a