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10 September 2020
Issue: 7901 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Law digests: 11 September 2020

Divorce

Akhmedova v Akhmedov and others [2020] EWHC 2235 (Fam), [2020] All ER (D) 01 (Sep)

FPR 4.1(6) was not the correct procedural route applicable to set aside or vary applications pertaining to final financial remedy orders. Accordingly, the Family Division, ruling on an application which arose in proceedings concerning the enforcement of a debt owed which a husband owed to a wife, held that there should be no variation of certain orders made in earlier proceedings, which required artwork and a yacht to be transferred to the wife. The court also held that there should be no stay of the wife’s claim against two respondents, in circumstances where the purpose of the Liechtenstein proceedings was different, holding that the fact that certain of the relevant assets were held in Liechtenstein did not mean that her claims were governed by Liechtenstein law. The court further ruled that the balancing exercise fell squarely in favour of making orders for disclosure in favour of the wife against two of the respondents in the proceedings.


Family proceedings

Newman v A local authority and others

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Jurit LLP—Caroline Williams

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NEWS
Talk of a reserved ‘Welsh seat’ on the Supreme Court is misplaced. In NLJ this week, Professor Graham Zellick KC explains that the Constitutional Reform Act treats ‘England and Wales’ as one jurisdiction, with no statutory Welsh slot
The government’s plan to curb jury trials has sparked ‘jury furore’. Writing in NLJ this week, David Locke, partner at Hill Dickinson, says the rationale is ‘grossly inadequate’
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After Woodcock confirmed no general duty to warn, debate turns to the criminal law. Writing in NLJ this week, Charles Davey of The Barrister Group urges revival of misprision or a modern equivalent
Family courts are tightening control of expert evidence. Writing in NLJ this week, Dr Chris Pamplin says there is ‘no automatic right’ to call experts; attendance must be ‘necessary in the interests of justice’ under FPR Pt 25
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