Analysis: Was De Gafforj ruling another missed opportunity?

Partner Stuart Clark of the International Family Law Group looks at the Court of Appeal ruling that granted Anne Orenga de Gafforj a Hadkinson Order in September 2018.

The decision prevented her husband from pursuing his appeal against the Order of District Judge Hudd of April 2017 unless he complied with a Legal Services Payment Order made in her favour.

The judgment of Lord Justice Peter Jackson on the Hadkinson issue is unimpeachable. There were flagrant breaches of orders by the husband; deliberate and continuing contempt of court which entirely impeded the wife's ability to respond to his appeal.

Whilst that may be so the wider ramifications for international practitioners is that we now miss out on...

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