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Family provision – Award. The appeal arose out of financial remedy proceedings. The husband appealed against the financial remedy award and against the effective dismissal of his application to set aside the financial remedy award on the basis of alleged material non-disclosure by the wife. The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, dismissed the appeals. As to the former, the reality of the present case clearly indicated that the judge had assessed the fairness of the case to be needs, not equality and had given adequate reason for the departure from equality. As to the latter, the circumstances had all pointed to stopping the matter from proceeding further.
Family provision – Award. The appeal arose out of financial remedy proceedings. The husband appealed against the financial remedy award and against the effective dismissal of his application to set aside the financial remedy award on the basis of alleged material non-disclosure by the wife. The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, dismissed the appeals. As to the former, the reality of the present case clearly indicated that the judge had assessed the fairness of the case to be needs, not equality and had given adequate reason for the departure from equality. As to the latter, the circumstances had all pointed to stopping the matter from proceeding further.
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