FRJ stage

Bankruptcy

DDR v BDR (Financial Remedies, Beneficial Ownership and Insolvency) [2024] EWFC 278

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/278 Alexander Chandler KC sitting as a High Court Judge. A complicated case, involving a consideration of three areas of law: insolvency, trusts of land, and financial remedies. Useful analysis of how the courts address the tension between paying creditors under a bankruptcy

Till Debt Do Us Part: Bankruptcy and Financial Remedies

Till Debt Do Us Part: Bankruptcy and Financial Remedies

Financial remedies practitioners are well-accustomed to advising parties in straitened financial circumstances. Often the central question is how to stretch the available resources to ensure both parties have a roof over their heads. However, when one or both parties find themselves in serious financial difficulty, a less familiar issue may

Gudmundsson v Lin [2024] EWHC 1576 (Fam)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2024/1576 Peel J does his best to put into practice the intention of the original financial remedies order, despite H depriving W of 50% of the FMH by not informing the court that there was a bankruptcy order. Background summary W and

Nilsson & Anor v Cynberg [2024] EWHC 2164 (Ch)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/ch/2024/2164 James Pickering KC sitting as a deputy High Court judge. A declaration of trust is conclusive unless varied by subsequent agreement or affected by proprietary estoppel. A ‘subsequent agreement’ is not limited to those compliant with the LP(MP)A 1989

The Insolvency Service v Becker & Anor [2020] EWHC 2546 (Fam)

Mostyn J. The Insolvency Service brought criminal proceedings against the tennis player Boris Becker, alleging that he had failed to disclose all his assets. One count of alleged non-disclosure related to the existence of the BB Settlement, a trust established pursuant to an order under Schedule 1 Children Act 1989

Young v Young [2013] EWHC 3637 (Fam)

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2013/3637.html

Davis (As Trustee in Bankruptcy of Audley Glendon Jackson) v Jackson & Jackson [2017] EWHC 698 (Ch)

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2017/698.html