In this instalment of their quarterly NLJ update, Ellie Hampson-Jones & Carla Ditz analyse three notable cases, plus recent developments in family law
- This update considers three recent reported cases, as well as two important developments in family law, namely, guidance for judges when writing to children, and an upcoming public consultation on the instruction of unregulated experts in children proceedings.
Vince v Vince [2024] EWFC 389
There has been much publicity in the legal and national press about the publication in December of two judgments in the matter of Dale and Kate Vince. This is not the first time Mr Vince has been the subject of high-profile court proceedings; many will have first come across the green energy entrepreneur in the 2015 Supreme Court proceedings brought by his former wife, Kathleen Wyatt.
The present proceedings occurred following the breakdown of Mr Vince’s marriage to Kate Vince. The parties were married in February 2006, but there was some debate in this case as to when the parties’ ‘marital relationship’ started. The judge, Mr Justice Cusworth,
