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Elizabeth Bowden

Elizabeth Bowden

Elizabeth Bowden is a barrister at College Chambers. She specialises in financial remedies, including TOLATA matters. Elizabeth particularly enjoys ca...

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WX v HX [2023] EWFC 279 (B)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2023/279 Mr Recorder Day’s judgment in a case involving complex procedural history, intervenors, non-disclosure and a ‘fragile’ business valuation. Of note is Recorder Day’s inclusion of his earlier decision to refuse a Hadkinson order. Recorder Day determined that debarring a

B v B [2024] EWFC 311 (B)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/311 District Judge Dinan-Hayward significantly departed from equality in the wife’s favour, where the applicant husband did not attend the final hearing, failed to engage with his own application and failed to undertake proper disclosure. Background H 43, W 47. 13-year

LI v FT (Maintenance Pending Suit) [2024] EWFC 342 (B)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/342 DDJ Harrop. Decision on costs after an MPS application with no clear winner. The court was dismayed by what had been incurred in legal fees contesting the MPS application. W incurred £27,000 in a little over a month and H

JL v NN [2024] EWHC 1489

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2024/1489 Williams J allowed W’s appeal on the basis that the judge failed to explicitly evaluate critical evidence and reach clear conclusions. Williams J confirmed that the burden of proof for fraud and dishonesty in the Financial Remedies Court is subject

N v J [2024] EWFC 184

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/184 Peel J’s view is that it is unlikely that domestic abuse would have a material impact on the vast majority of financial remedy cases, such that it would need to be litigated. Peel J uses the case of N v J

Rotenberg v Rotenberg & Ors [2024] EWFC 185

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/185 Peel J accepts the existence of the Thwaite jurisdiction. Where the landscape on the ground was very different from that which was envisaged at the time of the order an executory order could be reframed under the Thwaite jurisdiction. The jurisdiction should