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Gallagher v Gallagher (No.2) (Financial Remedies) [2022] EWFC 53

Date:6 JUL 2022

(Family Court, Mostyn J, 13 June 2022)

Financial remedy proceedings – Costs incurred – Impartiality of expert witnesses

The judge ordered order a lump sum of £12,129,209, payable by instalments, to the wife.

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Neutral Citation Number: [2022] EWFC 53

Case No: LV20D03547

IN THE FAMILY COURT

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Date: 13 June 2022

Before :

MR JUSTICE MOSTYN

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Between :

Brid Angela Gallagher
Applicant

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Donal John Gallagher
Respondent

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Jonathan Southgate QC and Petra Teacher (instructed by Rayden Solicitors) for the applicant (“the wife”)
Simon Webster QC and Phillip Blatchly (instructed by Hall Brown) for the respondent (“the husband”)

Hearing dates: 21, 23, 25, 27 May 2022

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Judgment Approved by the court

for handing down

This judgment was delivered in private. The judge hereby gives permission – if permission is needed – for it to be published. It should be reported as Gallagher v Gallagher (No.2) (Financial Remedies) [2022] EWFC 53

The judge has made a reporting restriction order which provides that in no report of, or commentary on, the proceedings or this judgment may the children be named or their schools or address identified.

It further provides that certain financial matters may not be reported.

Breach of that order will be a contempt of court.

Judgment: Gallagher v Gallagher (No.2) (Financial Remedies) [2022] EWFC 53