06 June 2025
Political donations, a husband’s fraudulent non-disclosure, journalistic access to court documents, and what happens when an uncooperative spouse refuses to leave the matrimonial home? In this week’s NLJ, Ellie Hampson-Jones, senior associate, and Carla Ditz, knowledge development lawyer, Stewarts, look into the whys and wherefores of three recent family law cases
Hampson-Jones and Ditz also consider recently issued guidance for judges on writing letters to children and an upcoming consultation on unregulated experts in children proceedings.
Their quarterly update, 'Family law brief', considers interesting issues raised regarding the treatment of political donations for the purposes of divorce settlements in green energy entrepreneur Dale Vince’s divorce, as well as sanctions imposed on a wife who refused to leave.
Hampson-Jones and Ditz write: ‘The case provides clear guidance to practitioners where a spouse remains in occupation and deliberately obstructs the sale of a property in contravention of the intention of an order.’RELATED ARTICLES
