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- In this case HHJ Hess (‘the judge’) considered an application for the variation of a pension sharing order. Case note, 18/11/2021, free
- In this case Peel J (‘the judge’) dealt with the final hearing in an application by Caroline Crowther (‘W’) for financial remedies following her divorce from Paul Crowther (‘H’). Case note, 05/11/2021, free
- In this case Sir Jonathan Cohen (‘the judge’) had to determine the ambit of the applicant wife’s (‘W’) claims for financial remedy orders. Specifically, this concerned whether the English court had jurisdiction to determine W’s maintenance claim, given the effect of Council Regulation (EC) 4/2009 (‘the Maintenance Regulation’). Case note, 07/10/2021, free
- In this case Peel J (‘the judge’) dealt with an application by the wife (‘W’) for interim financial provision, including costs funding. This matter had previously been the subject of a reported decision by the judge who, on that occasion, determined that W had actually been validly divorced in China, meaning that her application under the MCA 1973 must be dismissed and that the only remedy available to her in England was under s.13 of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (‘Part III’). Case note, 28/09/2021, free
- The Court of Appeal was concerned with an appeal from a decision of Nicholas Cusworth QC (sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge). By that decision Mr Cusworth QC had determined that the proceedings concerning the parties’ children were subject to the 1996 Hague Child Protection Convention (‘the 1996 Hague Convention’) for the purposes of the lis pendens provisions in article 13. Case note, 10/09/2021, free
- Mostyn J considered childlessness, duration of marriage, and approaches to company valuations in this application for financial remedy. Case note, 22/07/2021, free
- Peel J rejected an application by W for non-recognition of a Chinese divorce. Case note, 27/05/2021, free
- 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