FRJ stage

Publicity and Confidentiality

Tsvetkov v Khayrova [2023] EWFC 130 and [2023] EWFC 131 (costs)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2023/130 Costs: https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2023/130 Peel J. Final Hearing of H’s Financial Remedy application. The parties were born in Russia. The parties hold Russian, UK and Cypriot passports. H is 42 and W is 36. They have

AW v AH [2022] EWFC 195

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2022/195.html Deputy District Judge Michael Horton QC. The reserved judgment at a final hearing for financial relief under Part III of the 1984 Act. Short marriage of 3 years including cohabitation, one child of the family aged 3.5 living

James v Seymour [2023] EWHC 844 (Fam)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2023/844 Mostyn J. An appeal concerning the correct approach to the calculation of child maintenance liability in which Mostyn J adds to the ever-expanding repository of family law acronyms. The mother ('M') and father ('F') had married in

Have We Been Getting It Wrong for the Past 75 Years? Privacy, Secrecy and the Financial Remedies Court

Have We Been Getting It Wrong for the Past 75 Years? Privacy, Secrecy and the Financial Remedies Court

The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley starts with one of the most celebrated opening lines in literature: ‘The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.’ Historically, the same could be said of the Family Division, where a husband or wife could obtain a Mareva injunction, or pierce

X v C [2022] EWFC 79

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2022/79 HHJ Farquhar. Modest asset financial remedy case published as part of commitment to publication of court judgments at all levels. Assets comprised FMH H’s sole name, net equity c.£258k; a house owned by W and her former husband in which

Gallagher v Gallagher (No.1) (Reporting Restrictions) [2022] EWFC 52

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2022/52.html Mostyn J. Application for a reporting restriction order ('RRO'), alternatively an anonymity order. Reference to proceedings 'in private' in FPR 27.10 and 27.11 does not impose secrecy as to the facts of the

Very Much Ancillary

Very Much Ancillary

A lot has been written of late about the privacy (or otherwise) of family money cases, and all of it by men with big brains and a lot of words. As someone who hasn’t conducted a money case for some years (not great with numbers, me), I would not