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HJB v WPB [2024] EWFC 187

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/187 HHJ Vincent. Preliminary hearing to determine whether parties should be held to a separation agreement. Agreement found to be ‘presumptively dispositive’. An agreement will not be unpicked merely because a business has thereafter performed well. Background H (46) and W (43) married

V v V (Financial Remedy Hearing) [2024] EWFC 255 (B)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/255 HHJ Willans. Three-day final financial remedy hearing involving the computation of the assets available for distribution including properties in India. This case focused on the calculation of the assets available for distribution and the approach that should be taken to some

No Special Favours: Litigants in Person and the Financial Remedies Court

No Special Favours: Litigants in Person and the Financial Remedies Court

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2024/2614 Although not impacted in the same way as private law children proceedings by the restrictions on access to justice brought about the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012, which came into force on 1 April 2013, there are

GH v GH – FDRs Are Not to Be Dispensed With

GH v GH – FDRs Are Not to Be Dispensed With

If ever there were any doubts as to the importance of the FDR appointment and the parties’ attendance at one, then Mr Justice Peel has unequivocally put those doubts to rest in his judgment in GH v GH [2024] EWHC 2547 (Fam), published on 3 October 2024. The court’s

NW v BH [2024] EWFC 118 (B)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/118 Recorder Rhys Taylor. Evidentially complex final hearing in needs-based case involving verbal Daniels v Walker application, abandoning of SJE report, disclosure inadequacies, and an intervenor being removed. H & W cohabited from 2008, married 2018 and separated in 2021. Three minor

A 40-Year Revolution in Financial Remedies

A 40-Year Revolution in Financial Remedies

My subject today is revolution. Don’t worry. I am not advocating a take-over of the country by Tommy Robinson or Piers Corbyn. I am talking about the fundamental transformation of financial remedy work since I undertook my first ever case on 19 July 1983 in the Edmonton County Court,

At A Glance Conference 2024: Conference Report

At A Glance Conference 2024: Conference Report

The flagship financial remedy conference of the year took place on Wednesday 9 October 2024, expertly chaired by Peel J. The Class Legal team excelled yet again with the At a Glance annual conference, sponsored by the brilliant 3PB Barristers – who brought along some squeezy stress-ball judges for delegates to