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SM v BA (Legal Services Payment Order) [2025] EWFC 7

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2025/7 Nicholas Allen KC sitting as a deputy High Court judge. Facts Application for a legal services payment order within high net worth financial remedy proceedings. W’s LSPO application was for H to meet the costs of £241,269 in unpaid invoices

AJ v FJ (Appeal Against Registration) [2024] EWFC 356

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/356 MacDonald J. Summary This matter concerned a successful appeal against the decision of the Maintenance Enforcement Business Centre (MEBC) to register a Polish interim maintenance order obtained by the respondent from the District Court in Jelenia Gora on 15 December 2022. The

HA v EN [2025] EWHC 48 (Fam)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2025/48 Deputy High Court Judge Richard Todd KC. Application by W for maintenance pending suit (MPS) and a legal services payment order (LSPO) in protracted financial remedy proceedings. Background W, aged 40 and born in Russia, had been a British citizen since

ST v AR [2025] EWFC 4

ST v AR [2025] EWFC 4

The Husband is 70. The Wife is 51. They have a 9-year-old daughter. They cohabited from February 2003 and in early 2012 separated due to the wife’s affair. In August 2012 – c.9 months later – they reunited. They married on 8 October 2012. In November 2020 the parties relocated

WX v HX [2023] EWFC 279 (B)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2023/279 Mr Recorder Day’s judgment in a case involving complex procedural history, intervenors, non-disclosure and a ‘fragile’ business valuation. Of note is Recorder Day’s inclusion of his earlier decision to refuse a Hadkinson order. Recorder Day determined that debarring a

James Turner KC (1952–2025): An Obituary

James Turner KC (1952–2025): An Obituary

James Turner KC, who has died aged 72, was a titan of the bar. In an increasingly specialised legal world, he had a uniquely broad practice for a family barrister: financial remedies, child abduction, divorce, crime, judicial review, medical disciplinary work and administrative law. He appeared in over 200 reported

ST v AR [2025] EWFC 4

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2025/4 HHJ Vincent (sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge). Final hearing in a high-value case. Court making findings on whether H’s large inheritance had been matrimonialised, W’s entitlement to a second home, and who should be awarded the family home.