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Stephanie Coker

Stephanie Coker

Stephanie Coker is a barrister at FOURTEEN. She specialises in financial remedies following the breakdown of a relationship (including TOLATA matters)...

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Savage v Savage [2024] EWCA Civ 49

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2024/49.html Moylan, Phillips and Snowden LJJ. An appeal by a minority beneficiary concerning the interpretation of s 15(3) of the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996. The question that the court needed to determine was whether

BR v BR [2024] EWFC 11

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2024/11.html Peel J. When should a single joint expert (SJE) be instructed rather than two or more separately instructed experts in financial remedy proceedings? Both parties sought to separately instruct sole experts, one for each party, to value a highly

When Is an Add-Back Not an Add-Back?

When Is an Add-Back Not an Add-Back?

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2023/244.html So-called ‘small money’ cases have historically been rarely published. However, the President’s Confidence and Confidentiality: Transparency in the Family Courts Report of 29 October 2021, in which he asked all judges to publish at least 10% of their

A Wife v A Husband [2023] EWFC 200

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2023/200.html HHJ Willans. Financial remedy application involving a single issue, namely, what were W’s housing needs and how should those needs be funded. There had been a jurisdictional dispute between Italy and England, with H arguing that all matters

LT v ZU [2023] EWFC 179

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2023/179.html HHJ Evans-Gordon. Substantive hearing following the father challenging an application by the mother to convert an arbitral award into an order of the court. See earlier decision in LT v ZU [2022] EWFC 206. The award made pursuant to

LT v ZU [2022] EWFC 206

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2022/206 Application by the father challenging an arbitral award concerning provision for the parties’ two children pursuant to Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989. The challenge was on two general grounds: (1) the arbitrator had no power to require the father to

HAT v LAT [2023] EWFC 162

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2023/162.html Peel J. Application by W for MPS and LSPO where the parties had entered into and implemented a Deed of Separation (‘the Deed’) 30 years ago. The Deed had not been converted into a court order. The parties were