Our Family Law Pod is created by our Family and Divorce team, and provides news, tips and insights around current family law topics, and discusses the implications of key cases and guidance. Useful for anyone involved in the family court, in particular busy solicitors.

Episode 12: Case law update #1 – financial remedies – litigation misconduct and capacity

Welcome to the first episode in our new Case Law Update series. In this episode, Chelsea Bartlett and Vivien Croly, of our Family and Divorce team, discuss two recent Financial Remedy cases which consider an extreme example of litigation misconduct, and the difficulties encountered when one party in proceedings lacks capacity to litigate.

The full citations for the cases discussed are:

TA v SB [2025] EWFC 61 (B)

Mary-Jane Grace and Ian Douglas Grace [2025] EWFC 37 (B)