Alvina Collardeau v Michael Fuchs [2025] EWFC 307
Successfully acted for a former wife in relation to an unprecedented application for further enforcement and variation in High Court enforcement proceedings. In a landmark judgment, the judge ordered the former husband to pay a significant capitalised lump sum to the former wife for replacement housing. This was as a result of the husband's failure to comply with his undertaking to pay the mortgage on the former matrimonial home, in which the wife and the parties' children were living.
Collardeau v Fuchs [2025] EWFC 413
Successfully acted for a former wife in relation to her contempt of court application in High Court enforcement proceedings. The judge found the former husband to be guilty of contempt of court for selling a property in the US in breach of the English court's preservation order.
Alvina Collardeau v Michael Fuchs & Anor [2025] EWFC 36
Successfully acted for a former wife in High Court enforcement proceedings. In this highly significant judgment, Mr Justice Poole set aside a lease that was granted by the client’s former husband to a third party in order to defeat the financial remedy order made in her favour on divorce in 2023. The judge described the lease as a “sham” that was intended to frustrate and impede the enforcement of the financial remedy order.
AN v NO [2024] EWFC 94
Successfully acted for a husband to contest the wife’s English divorce application on the grounds of a lack of jurisdiction. The judge dismissed the English divorce proceedings brought by the wife, finding that there was no jurisdiction and an overseas country was the more appropriate forum for the divorce proceedings.
HAT v LAT [2023] EWFC 162
Successfully acted for a wife in an application for interim maintenance and legal costs provision in circumstances where a separation agreement had been entered into 30 years prior, but no court order had been obtained. The case addressed the law on delay in bringing a financial claim.
XO v YO & Anor [2022] EWFC 114
Successfully represented a wife in high-value financial proceedings where the husband refused to participate. The case involved international assets and complex jurisdictional issues. The judge drew adverse inferences against the husband, awarded the wife 50 per cent of the marital assets, and ordered the husband to pay the wife’s costs as a result of his misconduct.
G v T [2020] EWHC 1613 (Fam)
Acted for a high net worth businessman in financial proceedings addressing the correct valuation methodology for his business interests.
Prest v Prest [2015] EWCA Civ 714
Acted for a wife in enforcement proceedings which reached the Court of Appeal. Successfully defeated the husband’s appeal against a four-week prison sentence for breach of a financial order.
Y v Y (Financial Remedy: Marriage Contract) [2014] EWHC 2920
Acted for a husband in a high-value financial proceedings concerning the impact of a French marriage contract (akin to a pre-nuptial agreement) on the division of assets in an English divorce.
Prest v Petrodel [2013] UKSC 34
Acted for a wife in a successful appeal to the Supreme Court. This was a landmark case in family and corporate law concerning the doctrine of piercing the corporate veil. The case was reported widely, including by the BBC, The Telegraph and The Guardian.
Whaley v Whaley [2011] EWCA Civ 617
Acted for a wife in a landmark Court of Appeal case concerning the availability of trust assets to divorcing spouses. Successfully defeated the husband's appeal against an order in the High Court that trust assets were resources available to him.
U v U [2010] EWHC 2472 (Fam)
Acted for a father in international child abduction proceedings. Successfully obtained an order for the summary return of two children to their father in Nigeria.
W v H [2008] EWHC 2038 (Fam)
Successfully acted for a husband in a "big money" case concerning practice and procedure where one party seeks to shorten the litigation on the basis that an agreement has already been conclude (but the other party disputes that).
