Divorce
Meerna Ali Ghuloom Faraj v Sohail Sultan Ahmad and IIB Group Holdings WLL [2026] EWCA Civ 962
The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, allowed the appeals of the husband, the wife, and IIB Group Holdings against the judgment of Sir Jonathan Cohen in financial remedy proceedings between Meerna Ali Ghuloom Faraj (the wife) and Sohail Sultan Ahmad (the husband). The husband appealed the order requiring him to pay the wife a lump sum of £6m, contending the judge wrongly found he had £16m in disputed accounts. The wife cross-appealed the finding that a forward acquisition property (FAP) agreement concerning the former matrimonial home was not a sham transaction. IIB appealed paragraph 10 of the order requiring it to endeavour to agree terms for providing housing to the wife. The court held that the husband’s appeal succeeded on grounds of procedural unfairness because the wife’s case that the disputed accounts existed and contained funds available to him was not put to the husband in cross-examination, constituting a fundamental breach of fairness per Tui UK Ltd v Griffiths. The wife’s appeal succeeded
