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‘Yet once more, O ye Laurels, and once more
Ye Myrtles brown with Ivy never sere
I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude
And with forc’d fingers rude.’
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TEST - Collardeau v Fuchs & Anor [2025] EWFC 36
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2025/36
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Investments in private equity funds are a feature of some ‘big money’ divorce cases. In some cases, investments have been made in private equity funds and those investments, or profit sharing entitlements deriving from them, form part of the matrimonial or non-matrimonial property of the parties. The main difficulty in
Trusts in Financial Remedy Proceedings
‘Yet once more, O ye Laurels, and once more
Ye Myrtles brown with Ivy never sere
I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude
And with forc’d fingers rude.’
When studying for my A level in English literature I never quite worked out who Myrtle Brown was, nor
TEST - Collardeau v Fuchs & Anor [2025] EWFC 36
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2025/36
Poole J. Finding of a sham lease within enforcement proceedings of a final financial remedy order.
Facts
A final order was made in June 2023, followed by a series of enforcement orders by Knowles J. An application was made by the applicant
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