NO MOOR
You will remember Radmacher v Granatino [2010] UKSC 42. Held the Supreme Court’s majority: ‘The court should give effect to a nuptial agreement that is freely entered into by each party with a full appreciation of its implications unless in the circumstances prevailing it would not be fair to hold the parties to their agreement.’ And you may remember the Nuptial Agreements Bill recommended by the Law Commission nine years ago (according to Lord Bellamy in the House of Lords last week, the government would not be legislating in this area while the Commission was reviewing financial provision on divorce, but he hoped it would do so during the lifetime of Baroness Deech, if not his own).
Neither Radmacher nor the Bill had been heard of when the parties in M v A [2023] EWHC 613 (Fam), before Mr Justice Moor, entered into their pre-nuptial agreement (PNA). They each had legal advice, the wife from Maggie Rae at Clintons and the husband from