Reported Cases
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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.
Luckwell v Limata [2014] EWHC 1035 (Fam)
The firm acted for the wife (Petitioner) in financial remedy proceedings concerning the funding of capital gains tax arising on the sale of a property and how that might affect the net proceeds of sale.
Arif v Anwar [2014] EWHC 4669 (Fam)
The firm acted for the wife (Petitioner) in the hearing of the Wife’s adjourned application to enforce arrears accruing under an order for Maintenance Pending Suit and the Husband’s cross-application for that order to be varied and for the arrears accrued to be remitted. The judge first considered whether there should be sanctions imposed on the Husband for his failure to comply with an earlier order to issue his application by a certain date.
BD v FD (Maintenance) [2014] EWHC 4443 (Fam)
Advised in an application for maintenance pending suit application where the wife’s interim budget manifestly exceeded the standard of living of the marriage and where court intervention was not required to ensure her interim needs were met.
Mohan v Mohan [2013] EWCA Civ 138
The firm acted for the wife (Appellant) in an appeal seeking to rely on all information and documents provided by the Husband in accordance with the Order within the Wife’s general application proceedings excluded by the Judge in a previous hearing. The Husband did not attend nor was he represented at the appeal. Accordingly, an advocate to the Court was appointed.
Arif v Anwar & Anor [2013] EWCH 624 (Fam)
Acted for the wife (Petitioner) in a financial remedy application which involved a bankrupt husband and an oral disclosure hearing. This case required a consideration of how an issue relevant both to proceedings in the Family Division and in the Chancery Division might be managed in the most sensible manner.
