FRJ stage

Cases

Costs Add-Backs

DH v RH (No 3) (Final Hearing) [2024] EWFC 79

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/79 MacDonald J. Final hearing in contentious case involving high legal costs and allegations of wanton dissipation. W was aged 55 and H 58. Married July 1995. Two children aged 18 and 16 respectively. The parties had lived in London but at the

Pensions on Divorce Delay Needs

RN v TT [2024] EWFC 264 (B)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/264 HHJ Hess. Facts W (51) and H (49) cohabited in a flat in W’s sole name from late 2003 and married in 2004. W was a GP. H was an occasional painter and decorator but had not worked for many

Domestic Abuse Conduct

A v R [2024] EWFC 218 (B)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/218 This judgment by DJ Dodsworth examines the legal principles relevant to raising conduct arguments in financial remedy proceedings. Background A (aged 52) and R (aged 56) met in 1993, they began cohabiting in 1996. They subsequently married in 2004. A previously

'Thwaite Jurisdiction'

Rotenberg v Rotenberg & Ors [2024] EWFC 185

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/185 Peel J accepts the existence of the Thwaite jurisdiction. Where the landscape on the ground was very different from that which was envisaged at the time of the order an executory order could be reframed under the Thwaite jurisdiction. The jurisdiction should

Disclosure Costs

VS v OP (Litigation Misconduct, Quasi-Inquisitorial Approach and Inferences) [2024] EWFC 190 (B)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/190 Recorder Chandler KC’s final order was 67% to H and 33% to W, the non-compliant party, and an SPP order in W’s favour even though she did not attend, had not made full disclosure and adverse inferences had been

Litigation Funding Joinder of Third Parties Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)

Simon v (1) Simon (2) Integro Funding Limited (‘Level’) [2024] EWFC 160

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/160 Peel J. The last instalment in the Simon v Simon & Level family court litigation. Level’s civil claim is yet to be determined. Peel J found that the family court cannot make a distributive order upon application of an intervenor to