West Midlands FR Zone Local Practice Direction
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What Is a ‘Predicament of Real Need’?
In Radmacher (Formerly Granatino) v Granatino [2010] 2 FLR 1900 at [81] Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers said that of the three strands identified in White v White [2000] 2 FLR 981 and Miller/McFarlane [2006] 1 FLR 1186 it was needs and compensation which could most readily render it
Notionally Flawed? Notional Assessments in LSPO Applications
The past weeks have brought two more High Court judgments considering the practice of deducting a percentage from an LSPO applicant’s costs provision by way of a ‘notional standard assessment’. The first, JK v LM [2024] EWHC 1442 (Fam), was a judgment of Cobb J doubling down on the
AT v BT [2023] EWHC 3531 (Fam)
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2023/3531
Francis J. A final hearing in H’s financial remedy application.
W sought a lump sum of £9.145m on the basis of sharing and compensation. H asserted this was a needs case due to the non-matrimonial nature of the assets
Important Development in the Marinos/Munro Saga
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/163
A more detailed explanation of the background to this issue can be found in a blog Prof David Hodson OBE KC(Hons) MCIArb and I wrote for the FRJ earlier this year, but in considerable summary the position is as follows.
V v W [2024] EWFC 111
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/111
Poole J. The issues for determination were:
1. Does this court have jurisdiction to hear dissolution proceedings in relation to a French pacte civil de solidarite, ‘PACS’ (a form of civil partnership)?
2. If so, is the forum conveniens for dissolution proceedings
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