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- Judgment concerning whether the court had power to order indemnities relating to two mortgaged properties. Judgment, 28/09/2017, free
- General CRO was made after the husband issued County Court claims, despite the existence of an extended civil restraint order. Judgment, 28/07/2017, free
- Pension sharing used as a tool for enforcement Judgment, 27/07/2017, free
- Child maintenance case concerning whether, and if so the date from which, a maintenance assessment should be cancelled due to an absent parent ceasing to be habitually resident but notifying the agency of that some 10 years after the event, during which period both children had grown up and ceased to be qualifying children. Judgment, 14/06/2017, free
- Wife's application for a payment-out of £30,000 which was paid by the husband into the court following his unsuccessful appeal against the Hadkinson order to which the £30,000 payment relates. The husband opposed the payment-out mainly on the basis that the purpose behind the order was to provide legal representation, which was in fact provided pro bono, rather than to fund any indebtedness. The application was allowed. Judgment, 18/05/2017, free
- The father of the child had failed to make monthly payments to the mother following an order made in Poland. Believing the father to be living and working in the UK, the mother applied for enforcement of the order under EU Council Regulation 4/2009 but attempts to trace the father have so far been unsuccessful and he has not yet been served with an order to attend court. The judge in this case confirmed that s.31E MFPA 1984 authorises magistrates to issue a warrant to secure the attendance of an alleged maintenance defaulter who fails to appear in response to their summons (although it is to be noted that the jurisdiction of the magistrates to issue a warrant in this case if the father was served and failed to attend has not yet directly arisen). Judgment, 15/05/2017, free
- The court ruled that all dispositions of a £90 million Modern Art Collection and the financial assets of a limited company to two financial organisations should be set aside because they formed part of the latest scheme by the husband to hide his assets. This meant that at all material times those assets vested in the husband and continue to do so and therefore remain immediately available for the enforcement of the financial remedy order in favour of the wife. Judgment, 12/05/2017, free
- The husband was claiming legal professional privilege such that his solicitor, who had arranged the insurance for a £90 million Modern Art Collection which was ordered to be transferred to the wife, could not be questioned about this matter or about the assets held in a limited company in financial remedy proceedings. The court ruled that there was iniquity such as to justify the lifting of legal professional privilege in this case. Judgment, 12/05/2017, free
- Judgment in financial remedy proceedings in very high net worth case involving offshore trusts and international enforcement. The wife was awarded £453m, which represented 41.5% of the assets. Judgment, 11/05/2017, free
- Husband's application for permission to re-open an appeal against the making of a Hadkinson order on the basis that the court was relying on mistaken factual material in coming to its conclusions. The application was refused. Judgment, 28/03/2017, free