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Financial Provision: Revisiting orders
Hannah Clark analyses the limited circumstances in which the courts will reopen a final financial order ‘The courts are paying clear regard to the floodgates argument, through their restrictive application of the principle of finality in litigation and their constant reiteration of the extraordinariness of Barder events.’As family lawyers, we are well accustomed to the …
Cases Referenced
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- Barder v Barder (Caluori Intervening) [1988] AC 20
- Francis v Francis [2010] EWCA Civ 182
- P v P [2010] 1 FLR 1126
- Richardson v Richardson [2011] EWCA Civ 79
- Shaw v Shaw [2002] EWCA Civ 1298