Reported Cases
We make every effort to settle cases but if litigation is necessary we are very expert in it.
Hughes Fowler Carruthers remains a firm of choice for the huge money cases The Legal 500 2020
Elizabeth Tchenguiz Imerman v Vivian Saul Imerman [2009] EWHC 3486 (Fam)
Advised the husband (Respondent) in a case concerning applications in ancillary relief proceedings arising from potential use and retention of irregularly obtained, confidential information.
I v I [2008] EWHC 1167 (Fam)
The firm represented the wife (Applicant) in an application to set aside an ancillary relief order on the basis on non-disclosure by the husband.
Alexandra Ella v Yuval Ella & Ors [2008] EWHC 3258 (Ch)
Acted for the husband (Defendant) in an application to annul a bankruptcy order so as to free up progress of ancillary relief proceedings.
AB v JLB [2008] EWHC 2965 (Fam)
The firm acted for the mother (Applicant) in a judgment in proceedings under Brussels II bis where father was seeking dismissal of English proceedings initiated by the mother.
Mubarak v Mubarik [2008] JRC 136 [2009] 1 FLR 664
The firm acted for the husband (Respondent) in a case, described as the longest running and most bitterly fought divorce case in England, involving an application by the wife requiring the Court to consider the circumstances in which it can enforce or give effect to an order of the English Family Division relating to a Jersey trust.
Mubarak v Mubarik [2007] EWHC 220 (Fam)
The firm acted for the husband (Respondent) in an ancillary relief application following a very lengthy and costly litigation to enforce the court order awarding the wife a lump sum of £4,875,000. The wife applied, as alternatives: (i) to set aside, under Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, s 37, the husband’s transfer of shares into the husband’s Jersey trust; (ii) to set aside, also under s 37, the wife’s exclusion from the trust; (iii) to vary the terms of the trust, as a post-nuptial settlement, under s 24(1)(c), so as to require the trustees to pay the wife an amount equal to the amounts now owed by the husband to the wife; and (iv) to correct the judge’s original order under the slip rule.
L v (1) L (2) H (a firm) [2007] EWHC 140 (QB)
The firm acted for the wife and the wife’s solicitors (Defendants) in an application by husband requesting that the wife’s solicitors hand over copies of his hard drive which had been copied during the course of divorce proceedings.
H v H [2007] EWHC 459 (Fam)
The firm acted for the Respondent in a big money case involving the division of substantial property built up over the course of a long marriage and the husband’s future earnings.
Mia Holman v Graham Anthony Kingston Howes [2007] EWCA Civ 877
The firm acted for the husband (Respondent) in an appeal against an order in a property dispute where the original order had stated that no order for sale would be made for the “time being”. The appellant was seeking both more certainty about her right to stay in the house and a larger beneficial interest.
P v P [2007] EWHC 2877 (Fam)
The firm acted in ancillary relief proceedings where the judge had to decide how to split the matrimonial assets where the husband claimed that a significant portion of the assets had been accrued after the couple separated. There was also dispute as to the total value of those assets.
Mubarak v Mubarik [2006] EWHC 1260 (Fam)
Acted for the husband (Respondent) in a long running ancillary relief case concerning enforcement of lump sum and periodical payment orders where the applicant was alleging that the respondent was wilfully refusing to pay. The case is novel in the discussion generated concerning the applicants use of the ‘Hadkinson’ principle to try and prevent the husband from being heard on the grounds that he is in contempt of court.
S v S [2006] EWHC 2793 (Fam)
The firm acted for the husband (Respondent) in ancillary relief proceedings involving the disposal of the assets as between the wife and the husband, in particular, the disposition of the property and assets and the amount of the lump sum to be paid by the husband to the wife, following his redundancy.
