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- As part of their divorce settlement, the parties agreed that the ex-wife would keep the first £100,000 of any inheritance from her mother and the balance over that amount would be split equally between them. The mother left exactly £100,000 to the ex-wife with the remaining £150,000 going to the ex-wife's children. The ex-husband brought a probate claim to challenge the validity of the ex-wife's mother's will, alleging that it was not duly executed in accordance with the provisions of section 9 of the Wills Act 1837. The Deputy Master decided that H had no sufficient interest in the will and therefore had no standing to bring the claim. The ex-husband's appeal against that decision was allowed. Judgment, 27/05/2016, free
- Application by former husband for a declaration that a consent order drawn up in 2012 provided for the sale of a Swiss property only if he defaulted on monthly payments to his ex-wife and not if he failed to pay the lump sum. The application was refused. Judgment, 18/05/2016, free
- Wife's appeal against the terms of a consent order which determined that any amount received from the sale of the FMH should be off-set against monies received from specified litigation. The issue here was whether the set-off applied only to sums already received by the wife at the time when litigation monies were received by the husband, or whether the set-off also applied to sums that may be received by her in the future. Judgment, 23/03/2016, free
- The issue in these financial remedy proceedings was where the responsibility, under a consent order, for French tax charge on a property lay. Case note, 17/03/2016, members only
- Application by a former husband to set aside a consent order Case note, 17/03/2016, members only
- Application by a former husband to set aside a consent order on the basis that, at the time of the agreement, his former wife failed to make full and frank disclosure in relation to a company of which she was both a director and shareholder. It was his case that the non-disclosure upon which he relies was a material factor in that he entered into the agreement to compromise his financial claims arising in the divorce proceedings on the basis of incomplete (and, on his case, misleading) information. Cases of Sharland v Sharland and Gohil v Gohil considered. Judgment, 17/02/2016, free
- The issue in these financial remedy proceedings was where the responsibility, under a consent order, for French tax charge on a property lay. Was it agreed that it would be paid by the wife or by the deceased husband, i.e. now his estate? The court held that the tax charge should not come out of the wife's share of the proceeds. Judgment, 05/02/2016, members only
- Application for declaratory relief where the applicant was arguing that a final consent order was substitution for and supersession of an interim order, including any arrears that may have arisen under it. Judgment, 08/12/2015, members only
- Appeal by wife against the rejection of her application to vary the terms of an undertaking, whereby she had agreed by consent to release her former husband from the FMH mortgage by either obtaining a mortgage in her own name or selling the house. Appeal dismissed. Judgment, 31/07/2015, free
- Application by W to appeal, out of time, a consent order making financial provision for her. She was appealing on the basis that since the order was made, the W solicitors had uncovered evidence that the H may own land in Jordan which he had not previously disclosed. Permission was granted despite the W having had an inkling before the consent order was made that the H may have owned this land. Judgment, 14/01/2015, free