W applied for full ancillary relief arising upon the breakdown of her marriage. She copied a number of the husband’s documents, rummaged through dustbins and took documents from her husband’s pockets. When she was no longer living in the former matrimonial home, she had the locks on his study changed and obtained access to more documents, Baron J commented: ‘This case is an object lesson for all. If a husband does not give proper disclosure, makes threats and causes problems/delays, then the result will be a wife who feels that she has no alternative but to litigate with ‘all guns blazing’ – taking documents, taping telephone calls, employing private detectives and the like. This strategy will make a husband feel beleaguered so that he becomes more defensive and difficult. It is a vicious circle’.
Judges:
Baron J
Citations:
[2005] EWHC 1070 (Fam), [2005] 2 FLR 1137
Links:
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – L v L and Hughes Fowler Carruthers QBD 1-Feb-2007
The parties were engaged in ancillary relief proceedings. The Husband complained that the wife had sought to use unlawfully obtained information, and in these proceedings sought delivery up of the material from the wife and her solicitors. He said . .
Cited – Lykiardopulo v Lykiardopulo CA 19-Nov-2010
The court was asked as to how a Family Division judge might decide whether or not to publish an ancillary relief judgment at the conclusion of a trial during which one of the parties conspired to present a perjured case. H and family members had . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Family
Updated: 19 November 2022; Ref: scu.228568