Cases Archive

Deputy High Court Judge Richard Todd KC thanked both Michael Glaser KC and Dominic Brazil and their legal teams for all their considerable assistance in what is a far from a straightforward case around agreeing ongoing funds for the legal process.

Michael Glaser KC, on behalf of the wife, argued that the husband had greater worth than was being declared. Dominic Brazil, acting in a direct access capacity, refuted such claims. The case centred on how to secure funding for legal advice and representation in the ongoing financial dispute. The  case breaks new ground in the development of orders for Legal Services Orders and how to secure such payments.

In this ground-breaking case, a Part III MFPA 1984 claim was founded solely on an interest in a matrimonial home in the jurisdiction.

The Court of Appeal allowed an appeal against an order in financial remedy proceedings directly against a discretionary trust, of which the husband was a potential beneficiary, to make a lump sum payment to the wife. The judge had had no power under the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 s.23(1) to make such an order against a third party.

Mrs Justice Roberts dismisses Wife’s attack of a trust owning shares in companies worth £50m

Court of Appeal dismisses proposed appellant’s application to set aside consent order made in financial remedy proceedings

Wife’s appeal in financial remedy proceedings in which she sought an anonymity order and argued that the law in this regard should change. Appeal refused

Court of Appeal confirms it is possible to make a Pension Sharing Order in relation to a pension based outside the jurisdiction, and that injunctions made under s.37 Senior Courts Act 1981 does not create freestanding jurisdiction to make substantive orders – it is an ancillary power only