FRJ stage

Setting Aside a Decree Nisi

HK v SS [2025] EWFC 5 (B)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2025/5 HHJ Simmonds, National Lead Judge for Divorce. Guidance on when a delay between conditional order being made, and application for a final order, is delay sufficient to cause the court to question whether a final order should be made. In summary:

RN v DA (Divorce – Rescission of Decree Nisi) [2023] EWFC 255

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2023/255.html HHJ Vincent. Final Hearing of cross-applications to either grant a decree absolute out of time or rescind the decree nisi. Addendum judgment on anonymisation. HHJ Vincent. Divorce proceedings led to decree Nisi being pronounced on 18 September 2012. Neither

Cazalet v Abu-Zalaf [2023] EWCA Civ 1065

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2023/1065.html King, Moylan and Peter Jackson LJJ. An appeal brought against the decision of Mostyn J – summarised by Henry Pritchard – concerning the approach the court should take when faced with an application to rescind a decree nisi. Appeal allowed. The

Cazalet v Abu-Zalaf [2022] EWFC 119

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2022/119 Mostyn J. W’s application for (i) the recission of decree nisi, (ii) the dismissal of the underlying divorce petition and (iii) the set aside of the financial order made subsequent to that. The parties had been the subject of Mostyn J’