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Kieran Ball

Kieran Ball

Kieran Ball is a tenant at 4PB and is rapidly growing a practice focused on, and specialising in, all aspects of financial remedies including Schedule...

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Dickason v Dickason [2024] EWFC 285 (B)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/285 HHJ Sweeney. H was a serial ‘non-attender’. In December 2021, H failed to attend the final hearing listed in the financial remedies proceedings. H had failed to comply with any directions made in advance of the hearing. A few days before

Xanthopoulos v Rakshina [2024] EWCA Civ 84

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2024/84.html King, Bean and Moylan LJJ. Epic saga of litigation concludes with the Court of Appeal substituting a final order made in Part III proceedings. Background On 17 May 2023 Sir Jonathan Cohen made final orders disposing of W’s

The Husband v The Wife [2024] EWFC 64 (B)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/64 HHJ Willans. Needs case involving impressive parties with strong and opposing views over what has happened and what constitutes a fair outcome. The parties had agreed: (i) a PSO in respect of H’s pension; (ii) that there should be a

Re A v B (Schedule 1: Arbitral Award: Appeal) [2024] EWHC 778 (Fam)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2024/778 Cobb J. A root and branch assault leads to the conclusion that the court is not limited to the ‘four corners’ of Schedule 1 and can make orders that require a party to borrow. Background M’s appeal of HHJ Evans-Gordon’

Julie Annette Merryman v Alex Raymond Merryman & Ors [2024] EWFC 58 (B)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/58 HHJ Baddeley. Four stepchildren intervene successfully in financial remedies case in respect of four farming properties. The judgment disposes of an application made by four children (‘the children’) to intervene in financial remedies proceedings between their father (‘H’) and their step-mother

C v D (No 2) (2007 Hague Convention) [2024] EWFC 36

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/36 MacDonald J underlines the limited circumstances in which the registration of a maintenance order pursuant to the Hague Convention 2007 may be appealed successfully. The judgment marks the latest, and hopefully final, saga in an epic of litigation spanning nine years, including

LMZ v AMZ [2024] EWFC 28

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/28 Moor J. A striking age difference, 48 years between the parties, gives rise to a strong needs-based claim. Background * Both parties were born in Iraq and married in September 1999. At that time, H was 68 and W was 20. By final