Royds Withy King's recent caseload included a healthy diet of cross-border mandates involving pre-nuptial agreements and
financial remedy disputes relating to spousal maintenance claims, tax matters and business assets.
Not exact matches
She represents
financial institutions in litigation including matters involving creditors» rights, provisional
remedies and post-judgment enforcement, fraudulent transfers and
disputes relating to secured and unsecured lending.
An additional practice that has grown in popularity among many practitioners, where the parties have the
financial resources, is the use of a private
financial dispute resolution appointment (FDR), the FDR being a key part of
financial remedy proceedings in a divorce.
«The matters to which the court must have regard include --(a) the
financial value of the claim and the amount in
dispute, if different; (b) whether it would be more convenient or fair for hearings (including the trial) to be held in some other court; (c) the availability of a judge specialising in the type of claim in question; (d) whether the facts, legal issues,
remedies or procedures involved are simple or complex; (e) the importance of the outcome of the claim to the public in general».
Practice head and «absolute class act» Patrick Mulcare is «a tough litigator who takes no prisoners» in
financial remedy cases, the dissolution of civil partnerships and other family
disputes.
The team is «always prepared to listen and discuss the merits of different options» and its recent caseload included
financial remedy and international divorce proceedings involving high - value assets, cohabitee property
disputes and pre-nuptial agreements as well as pension sharing orders and spousal maintenance matters.
He has had extensive exposure to
financial remedy cases at all levels, which frequently involve
disputed company assets, international issues, and trusts.
The court procedure in
Financial Remedy applications means that approximately 90 % of all cases settle at the
Financial Dispute Resolution hearing, which is akin to in - court mediation, rather than go to a final hearing when a judge determines the outcome.
The Court reviewed in considerable detail the nature of the
disputes to which the fees at issue applied, with the aim of showing that most of them involved parties of limited means seeking to recover small amounts (or, in some cases, to obtain non-pecuniary
remedies), as well as the
financial effects of these fees on economically vulnerable litigants.
Jurisdiction
disputes can lead to lengthy and complex court proceedings prior to the
financial remedies procedure even starting.
The remaining issues all related to parenting more specifically, the children's estrangement from the father, and his subsequent efforts to
remedy this estrangement, with some minor residual
financial disputes.