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23 February 2024
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Law digests: 23 February 2024

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Family proceedings

BR v BR [2024] EWFC 11, [2024] All ER (D) 59 (Feb)

The Family Court ruled on the course of action that needed to be taken after the parties had chosen to divorce, and the husband’s (H) ES2 total figure, which was provisional, was £183m, of which approximately £163m represented his estimate of the business values. The wife (W) expressed some suspicion about H’s approach to valuing the businesses, believing that he would have sought to have depreciated their true worth. It fell to be determined whether a Single Joint Expert (SJE) should have been appointed. The court held, among other things, that the correct course of action had been for the implementation of a SJE instruction since a SJE report would have been likely to have given the parties a more secure evidential foundation for the FDR than two solely instructed reports.

Landlord & tenant

Jacobs v Chalcot Crescent (Management) Company Ltd [2024] EWHC 259 (Ch), [2024] All ER (D) 63 (Feb)

The Chancery Division ruled on the claimant

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