Recent Case Summaries

Background Roberts J (“the judge”) dealt with an application to set aside a consent order made in financial remedy proceedings, and a responding application to strike out or summarily dismiss H’s ap...

Background HHJ Hess (“the judge”) dealt with W’s financial remedies application. H was 60. W was 48. Both were Nigerian citizens. H was a successful businessman, who was brought up in a family of we...

Mr Justice Mostyn dealt with the division of carried interest and investments in PE funds in relation to W’s financial remedy application. Background Mostyn J (“the judge”) dealt with W’s financial r...

Justin Warshaw QC and Josh Viney represented the successful respondents in this appeal by a 41-year-old seeking maintenance from his parents Background The Appellant, aged 41, sought financial suppo...

Moor J addressed the first reported financial provision case proceeding solely under s.15(1)(c) of Part III Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 Background In this case Moor J heard applicatio...

Nigel Dyer QC represented His Highness and Nicholas Cusworth QC and Nicholas Wilkinson represented Her Royal Highness in financial remedy proceedings Background: Moor J (“the judge”) dealt with three...

Background   The parties married in Russia in 1983, where they lived throughout their married life. They had three children.   The parties were not well off when they met, but H accumula...

Facts Ms Kicinski ("W") and Mr Pardi ("H") married in 1991 and had two adult children. W was a German national, and H had dual Italian and US nationality. A significant part of this protracted piece...

Facts   This case concerned a preliminary jurisdictional argument in relation to a substantive application for financial provision under Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989. Since the applicatio...

Background On 20 May 2020, Mostyn J ordered that the parties’ first appointment would be dealt with by arbitration on 2 July 2020. He also made a mandatory order that a private FDR would take place...