Case Summaries

Short judgment of Haden-Cave J, supplemental to AAZ v BBZ [2016] EWHC 3234 (Fam), in which he found that new entities holding a modern art collection were no more than ciphers and the alter ego of the husband. He found those assets to be vested in the husband and ordered that those transactions be set aside.

Judgment of Mr Justice Haddon-Cave, supplemental to AAZ v BBZ [2016] EWHC 3234 (Fam), concerning the principles of Legal Professional Privilege.

Consideration of a stay of proceedings pursuant to Articles 12 and 13 of the Maintenance Regulation in an application for enforcement of terms of a final order in financial remedy proceedings

A husband’s appeal of a judgment in financial remedy proceedings in which the wife had been awarded £4.25 million on a needs basis. Mr Justice Mostyn dismissed the appeal and clarified the concept of needs.

Substantive judgment of Mr Justice Haddon-Cave in financial remedy proceedings awarding over £453m to a wife, including an art collection worth £90m. It addresses issues of pre-marital accrual, special contribution, computation, service out of the jurisdiction and enforcement under the Lugano Convention 2007.

Applications for declarations of parentage in accordance with section 55A of the Family Law Act 1986 where children had been born following donor insemination but statutory requirements had not been complied with.

Appeal by father in children proceedings to correct error of fact in judgment. Appeal allowed and judgment corrected.

Appeal in long-running dispute between two parents about the father’s contact with the parties’ child.

Successful application by a mother for further capital provision for her 16-year old son under Schedule 1, Children Act 1989.

Judgment of Baker J giving a broad interpretation to disclosures made “in furtherance of child protection” under FPR r 12.73.

Application to discharge or vary a periodical payments order which provided for payment on a joint lives basis.

Short judgment of the President dealing with a discrete issue concerning the date to be given to an adoption order.

Judgment of the President dealing with applications by W’s father for a certificate for a ‘leap-frog’ appeal to the Supreme Court, an application to appeal to the Court of Appeal and a stay.

Judgment of the President of the Family Division in which he examines the law in relation to investigatory, enforcement or regulatory agencies fulfilling their statutory functions to wards of court.

Judgment confirming that the grant of refugee status to a child by the Secretary of State for the Home Department is an absolute bar to any order by the Family Court seeking to effect the return of a child to an alternative jurisdiction; consideration of how the grant of refugee status could be challenged when an asylum claim is based on disputed allegations of violence.

Summary assessment of costs by the President of the Family Division in relation to applications for declarations of parentage in accordance with section 55A of the Family Law Act 1986