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Privacy at all costs?

17 August 2016 / Sarah Hughes
Issue: 7713 / Categories: Features , Divorce , Family , Ancillary relief
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Wyatt v Vince illustrates the growing trend towards openness of family proceedings, says Sarah Hughes

  • Considering the terms of the financial settlement reached in the high profile case of Wyatt v Vince and the court’s approach on the issues of privacy and costs.

The high profile and well known case of Wyatt v Vince [2015] UKSC 14, [2015] 2 All ER 755, involved a unanimous decision of the Supreme Court that an ex-wife’s application for financial remedy claims made almost 20 years after the grant of decree absolute should not be struck out. Instead, the Supreme Court decided that the financial application should be listed for a financial dispute resolution appointment in the Family Division of the High Court and the financial claims decided on their merit.

This case was described by the court as “highly unusual” and has attracted much media attention due to the fact that Mr Vince and Mrs Wyatt were only in a relationship for just over two years between 1981 and 1983, during which time they had a child together, and at the time of the

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