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Samantha Bangham’s Week in Cases 29 November 2013

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Date:29 NOV 2013
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Samantha Bangham
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Samantha Bangham - Family Law Reporter Aside from the family law cases it has been a terribly exciting week at the Jordan’s office here in Bristol due to the Christmas decorations making an appearance. A Twitter photo may be on offer for those looking for ideas for their own offices of how (or not) to decorate at this festive time! In addition there have been many many new cases of which I provide a few highlights.

My personal favourite this week is the judgment in Young v Young [2013] EWHC 3637 (Fam) [2014] FLR forthcoming which is definitely starting to get a soap opera feel about it. Despite a ‘final’ judgment being given I have a suspicion this won’t be the last we hear from the Youngs. The essential determination was that while the husband was not penniless as he had claimed he certainly didn’t have access to the sort of wealth the wife was asserting. Moor J found that rather than the...

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