Law digests: 8 September 2023

Family proceedings

A v M [2023] EWHC 1900 (Fam), [2023] All ER (D) 96 (Aug)

The High Court, Family Division, upheld an application by both the applicant husband and respondent wife for a reporting restriction order (RRO), having dismissed an appeal by the husband. The husband and wife were separated. The husband’s companies had entered insolvent administration. It fell to be determined, among other things: (i) the test to be applied to an application to adduce fresh evidence under FPR 30.12(2)(b); (ii) whether the trial court had been incorrect in finding that any award would likely go the husband’s creditors; and (iii) whether an RRO should be granted. The court held that (i) the application for leave to adduce fresh evidence under FPR 30.12(2)(b) had been totally without merit; (ii) the previous judge’s findings that any large amount of outright capital would be attached by the husband’s creditors and the maintenance award were impregnable; and (iii) the request for redactions met the necessary standard that there had been a significant risk that,