Divorce

23 October 2015

Issue: 7673 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court

Gohil v Gohil [2015] UKSC 61, [2015] All ER (D) 100 (Oct)

The Supreme Court allowed the wife’s appeal against an order setting aside an earlier order which had set aside part of a financial order which, by consent, had been made against the husband in favour of the wife. It held, among other things, that the principles propounded in Ladd v Marshall [1954] 3 All ER 745 had no relevance to the determination of an application to set aside a financial order on the ground of fraudulent non-disclosure.

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Divorce

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Weightmans—Nigel Adams & Rehman Noormohamed

Fieldfisher—Chris Cartmell

South Square—Tony Beswetherick KC