- This case concerned an application to secure the publication of a financial remedies judgment and to report on the content of that hearing. The applicant was Lady Hiroko Barclay ('Lady Barclay') and the respondent was Sir Frederick Barclay ('Sir Frederick') (aged c. 86). Case note, 06/05/2021, free
- Mostyn J dismissed a father’s application under the 1980 Hague Convention in which he claimed that an agreed change of habitual residence had been vitiated by the mother’s alleged fraud. Case note, 29/04/2021, free
- Case note, 22/04/2021, free
- Mostyn J dealt with an application for a declaration of non-recognition of a Muslim marriage and a petition for nullity on the basis that the applicant did not have the capacity to marry. Case note, 15/04/2021, free
- In this case HHJ Hess (‘the judge’) dealt with a two-day hearing at Central Family Court concerning cross-applications for enforcement, and for set aside, of a consent order made in financial remedies proceedings. Case note, 08/04/2021, free
- Roberts J considered a Schedule 1 claim in circumstances where the father was worth c. £190 million and had a gross income of £3.8 million per annum. Case note, 26/03/2021, free
- Listed before Mostyn J for final disposal was an application for maintenance under s.27 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (“MCA 1973”) made by the wife (“W”), along with a Judgment Summons issued by W, and an application made by the husband (“H”) to set aside, or stay enforcement of, an interim order for maintenance and legal services provision. This judgment follows the judgment of the Supreme Court from July 2020, Villiers v Villiers [2020] UKSC 30. A summary of that judgment can be found here. Case note, 19/03/2021, free
- Lieven J considered an appeal made against a decision not to exercise the Thwaite jurisdiction. Case note, 11/03/2021, free
- Roberts J considered an application made for a financial remedy in circumstances where there was significant inherited wealth and several offshore trust structures. Case note, 04/03/2021, free
- Cohen J heard applications made by both husband and wife following the handing down of judgment after a final hearing between the parties in March 2020. He gave two separate judgments. Case note, 25/02/2021, free
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