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Liam Kelly

Liam Kelly

Liam Kelly is a barrister at Deans Court Chambers, Manchester, and 5SAH, London, practising exclusively in private family law, with an emphasis on fin...

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The Summary of the Summaries (Spring 2025)

The Summary of the Summaries (Spring 2025)

WW v XX [2024] EWFC 330 (B) (HHJ Hess) Final hearing involving valuation and matrimonial nature of business. Keywords: matrimonial and non-matrimonial property; experts; companies; valuations Mainwaring v Bailey [2024] EWHC 2614 (Fam) (Henke J) Henke J ordered the husband to pay the wife’s costs assessed on a standard

The Summary of the Summaries (Winter 2024)

The Summary of the Summaries (Winter 2024)

TY v XA [2024] EWFC 96 (Moor J) Ripples from the decision in Potanin v Potanina [2024] UKSC 3. Moor J reiterated that Potanin had not changed the basic test for the grant of leave to apply for financial relief under Part III MFPA 1984, which should from now on

GH v GH [2024] EWHC 2547 (Fam)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2024/2547 Peel J. In a narrow but important judgment, Peel J reminds all of the importance of an FDR, allowing an appeal against a decision of the first instance judge to proceed directly to a final hearing. Peel J rejected the judge’

AB v BA [2024] EWHC 1179 (Fam)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2024/1179 Cusworth J. Appeals allowed against instalment quantum for payment of costs and the requirement for permission to enforce further costs orders. Financial remedy proceedings concluded in summer 2019 with joint lives maintenance. Two subsequent costs orders were made against W in

The Summary of the Summaries (Summer 2024)

The Summary of the Summaries (Summer 2024)

BR v BR [2024] EWFC 11 (Peel J) When should a single joint expert (SJE) be instructed rather than two or more separately instructed experts in financial remedy proceedings? The default position is that, wherever possible, an SJE should be directed rather than giving permission for two or more experts

Hersman v De Verchere [2024] EWHC 905 (Fam)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2024/905 Moor J. Enforcement proceedings following W’s failure to transfer a ski chalet to H. W previously committed to three months’ imprisonment but has not returned to the UK. H awarded £2.3m on account of lost rental profit and W’

D v D [2024] EWFC 76

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/76 HHJ Booth, sitting as a judge of the High Court: 25:75 division in favour of H following breakdown of second marriage and H’s substantial assets. Court considered W’s needs should be generously interpreted to overcome lack of SJE evidence