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Financial Provision: An open door
David Hickmott examines the Supreme Court decision in Birch v Birch and the importance of the discretionary jurisdiction in the family courts ‘The matter could, and should, have been more expeditiously dealt with had the parties addressed the court as to a proper inquiry into the merits of the wife’s application, rather than being derailed …
Cases Referenced
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- Birch v Birch [2015] EWCA Civ 833; [2017] UKSC 53
- Kensington Housing Trust v Oliver (1997) 30 HLR 608
- Mid Suffolk District Council v Clarke [2006] EWCA Civ 71
- Omielan v Omielan [1996] 2 FLR 306
- Owens v Owens [2017] EWCA Civ 182
- Prest v Petrodel Resources Ltd & ors [2013] UKSC 34; [2013] WTLR 1249 SC
- R (on the application of Unison) v Lord Chancellor [2014] EWHC 218 (Admin); [2015] EWCA Civ 935; [2017] UKSC 51
- Russell v Russell [1956] 2 WLR 544
- Sharland v Sharland [2014] EWCA Civ 95; [2015] UKSC 60
- Wyatt v Vince [2015] UKSC 14