(Family Division, Knowles J, 12 June 2020)
Financial remedies – Divorce – Application for strike-out and for disclosure
The Family Division held that, inter alia, the son's counterclaim should be struck out. As to the son's application for disclosure, it did not breach Article 6 for the wife to hold on to irrelevant documents.
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Neutral Citation Number: [2020] EWHC 1526 (Fam)
Case No: FD13D05340
FAMILY DIVISION
Royal Courts of Justice
Strand, London, WC2A 2LL
Date: 12/06/2020
Before :
MRS JUSTICE KNOWLES
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Between:
TATIANA AKHMEDOVA
Applicant
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(1) FARKHAD AKHMEDOV
(2) WOODBLADE LIMITED
(3) COTOR INVESTMENT SA
(4) QUBO 1 ESTABLISHMENT
(5) QUBO 2 ESTABLISHMENT
(6) STRAIGHT ESTABLISHMENT
(7) AVENGER ASSETS CORPORATION
(8) COUNSELOR TRUST REG.
(9) SOBALDO ESTABLISHMENT
(10) TEMUR AKHMEDOV
Respondents
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Alan Gourgey QC and James Willan (instructed by PCB Litigation) for the Applicant
Graham Brodie QC and Richard Eschwege (instructed by BCL Solicitors) for the Eighth and Ninth Respondents
Charles Howard QC and Charlotte Hartley (instructed by Hughes Fowler Carruthers) for the Tenth Respondent
Tim Owen QC and Tim James-Matthews (instructed by Hughes Fowler Carruthers) for the Tenth Respondent
Hearing dates: 11-13 May; 18-19 May 2020
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Approved Judgment
I direct that pursuant to CPR PD 39A para 6.1 no official shorthand note shall be taken of this Judgment and that copies of this version as handed down may be treated as authentic.
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THE HONOURABLE MRS JUSTICE KNOWLES
Judgment: Akhmedova v Akhmedov and Others [2020] EWHC 1526 (Fam)