Financial claims under Sch 1 of the Children Act 1989 are likely to be brought into procedural line with
ancillary relief applications at some time in the future.
On 1 June 2007, say, the net value of the former matrimonial home of a couple, now before the court on
an ancillary relief application, is # 200,000.
The fact that she did so following a contested
ancillary relief application and on the basis that all her ancillary relief claims were dismissed makes no difference; or it made no difference here, because her claims were of no real value in the light of H's insolvency.
However, the court held that there was no «compromise» of
an ancillary relief application — the parties had divorced many years before and a final order had been handed down at the conclusion of those proceedings.»
This was considered further in F v S (
ancillary relief application to set aside an order)[2009] EWHC 2377 (Fam) in which there had been a dispute as to the value of the husband's shares, with the husband's expert giving a value of # 3.7 m and the wife's expert giving a value of # 27.2 m.
Not exact matches
Permission to appeal against
ancillary relief orders (after Barder v Barder (Caluori intervening)[1988] AC 20, [1987] 2 FLR 480, HL) has been in the reports recently; but in two cases which only emphasise that, for such an
application to succeed, the circumstances must be exceptional.
And look, no
application to compromise Soulsby concerned an agreement post-approved
ancillary relief order.
There had been no pending
application for any
ancillary relief that could be compromised.
The parties (both of whom are in the public eye) made a joint
application to exclude the media from
ancillary relief proceedings.
In the meantime, in the
ancillary relief proceedings, Mr Imerman made an
application for the return of the seven files held by Withers.
He regularly appears in public law care cases on behalf of parents, local authorities and guardians, in private law proceedings (including domestic violence injunctions) and in financial disputes (
ancillary relief proceedings, trusts of land
applications, Inheritance Act
applications and Schedule 1 Children Act proceedings etc).
I do not agree... [A] s Sir Mark Potter P said in Charman v Charman (No 4)[2007] EWCA Civ 503, para 67, «the starting point of every inquiry in an
application for
ancillary relief is the financial position of the parties», and that «inquiry is always in two stages, namely computation and distribution».
Bankruptcy
applications, including
applications for sale and possession (and
ancillary injunctive
relief),
applications for annulment (and rescission of an annulment order by a creditor following the bankrupt's failure to comply with the Insolvency Rules) and
applications to set aside statutory demands.
The
application judge accepted the argument of the respondent that the
application had to be dismissed on the ground that the
application was not properly brought under rule 14.05 because the request for a mandatory order was not
ancillary to a claim for
relief.
The
application had been properly founded under subrule 14.05 (3)(h), no material facts in dispute, and under subrules 14.05 (3)(d) and (g), the determination of rights following the interpretation of a contract and
relief ancillary to those rights.
She referred to the dicta in Xydhias v Xydhias [1999] 1 FLR 683, 691: An even more singular feature of the transition from compromise to order in
ancillary relief proceedings is that the court does not either automatically or invariably grant the
application to give the bargain the force of an order.
King J accepted that in recent cases the courts were being more willing to make orders following a Notice to Show Cause
application in
ancillary relief cases.
- How to make good her contention that the assets held by the trustees of Dragon were to be treated as her husband's resources for the purposes of orders in the
application for
ancillary relief.
Pointing to the need for full information on the
application for
ancillary relief, the wife's likely ignorance of the true asset position and the husband's likely disaffection, Sir Mark Potter P described the letter of request as a «valuable means by which to obtain the necessary information» and said «the court should in principle be receptive to an
application by the wife in such a case».
application for
ancillary relief (this is for ongoing payments or a share in the property or possessions you own): # 355 in the High Court and # 296 in a county court