Reported Cases

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Al-Juffali v Estrada & Another [2016] EWCA Civ 176

Advised the Wife in an appeal where the court considered international and domestic law and determined that it was wrong to hold that in principle diplomatic immunity could not shield a husband from a wife’s Part III MFPA 1984 claim.

Estrada v Al-Juffali [2016] EWHC 213 (Fam)

Acted for the wife in an application for financial relief pursuant to Part III of the Matrimonial and the Family Proceedings Act 1984. Husband’s counter application to strike out her claim predicated on his assertion of protection from civil action arising from diplomatic immunity.

TM v AH [2016] EWHC 572 (Fam)

The firm acted in an application by the wife to join trustees to existing proceedings brought by her to vary two familial trusts on the basis they were nuptial settlements.

In this short judgment, the question of joinder of the trustees of two foreign trusts in the matter of W’s application to vary said trusts on the basis they were nuptial settlements was considered. H was the settlor of both trusts, to which W proposed “very substantial changes”.

De Renee v Galbraith-Marten [2016] EWCA Civ 537

The firm acted for the respondent in an application by a wife for permission to appeal the dismissal of the her application for leave to apply for financial relief after an overseas divorce, pursuant to Part III MFPA 1984.

Juffali v Juffali [2016] EWHC 1684 (Fam)

The firm acted for the wife (Applicant) in an application for financial remedies for herself and her 13-year-old daughter pursuant to Part III of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 following the husband’s pronouncement of talaq in Saudi Arabia.

The husband, who was terminally ill, initially defended the application on the basis of diplomatic immunity but that claim was rejected by the Court of Appeal and thereafter he withdraw his challenge to the jurisdiction of the English court.

MG v FG (Schedule 1 – Application to strike out Estoppel Legal Costs Funding) [2016] EWHC 1964 (Fam)

Advised the Father in cross applications for strike out of the mother’s Schedule 1 Children Act 1989 application and for a legal services funding order.

Arif v Anwar [2015] EWHC 124 (Fam)

Acted for the wife (Applicant) in a case involving the claim of a beneficial interest in a property by a third party and further sums owed to that third party, against a backdrop of a voluntary bankruptcy and financial remedy proceedings.

Gray v Work [2015] EWHC 834 (Fam)

Represented the husband (Respondent) in the wife’s application for a financial remedies order after a divorce. There were two significant issues in the case. First, the meaning and impact of a post-nuptial agreement which both parties signed about five years after the marriage. Second, whether or not the husband made what is known as a special contribution such that the amount now payable to the wife should be less than it otherwise might have been.

WA v Executors of the Estate of HA & Others [2015] EWHC 2233 (Fam)

Acted in the wife’s appeal against a consent order for financial provision on the basis that the Husband’s suicide 22 days after the making of the order constituted a Barder event.

Re C (Older Children – Relocation) [2015] EWCA Civ 1298

The firm acted for the mother (Appellant) in an appeal by her and her older child against the court’s refusal to allow the mother to remove her children to the USA.

M v W [2014] EWHC 925 (Fam)

Acted for the husband (Respondent) in an application by wife for financial provision pursuant to Part III of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 and application by husband that it should be struck out.

Luckwell v Limata [2014] EWHC 502 (Fam)

The firm acted for the wife (Petitioner) in a financial remedies case involving consideration of the weight to be attributed to a pre-marital agreement as well as whether the hearing should take place in public.