Chai v Peng [2014] EWHC 1519 (Fam)

Schedule 1: All in the past?

Rebecca Stone analyses legal costs orders involving both historic and future costs The judgment in Re Z highlights the importance of solicitors applying for legal funding as early as possible, considering what credit, if any, they are prepared to extend to a client, and making it clear to clients from the outset they will cease …

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Jurisdiction: Residual risk

Catherine Maguire analyses the decision in AJ v DM, which demonstrates the dangers of reliance on a sole domicile petition ‘It is far easier to re-establish habitual residence in a country where the party in question has previously been habitually resident than in a new country.’ Cohen J’s judgment in AJ v DM [2019] addresses …

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