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Overview
Hannah undertakes Matrimonial Finance, Schedule 1, Private-Law children work, and trusts of land cases. She has a particular interest in how these areas interplay with each other and other jurisdictions, such as Proceeds of Crime.
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Matrimonial Finance
Acting for Husbands, Wives, and interveners, Hannah has conducted cases which involve companies, partnerships and farms.
Cases of interest include:
- Re H – representing intervening daughter with beneficial interest in property owned by husband and wife;
- Re L – representing intervening brother and mother with life interest in property owned by husband and wife;
- Re B – representing husband. Co-director of pre-marriage business suffering the effects of economic downturn;
- Re P – representing wife. All assets (including contingent, possible hidden and sole trader business assets) in husband’s name. Significant debt in wife’s name. Issues about liquidity of assets and potential for bankruptcy;
- Re H – representing husband. Wife fraudulently encashed joint assets;
- Re C – representing wife. Short marriage with contribution argument by virtue of her securing removal of agricultural tie on FMH which had been owned by her husband before their marriage;
- Re C – representing wife. Whether concluded agreement and, if so, whether vitiated on grounds of change of residence of one of the children;
- Re B – detailed analysis of company accounts of the husband’s nine companies proved an understated income on his part.
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Child Law Private
Hannah represents parents, grandparents and children’s guardians in all aspects of private-law children work
Case of interest include:
- Re M – Secured supervised contact contrary to the expert recommendations in a case where Father was convicted of downloading indecent images of children
- P v B – Successfully argued for local schooling contrary to Father, Local Authority, and SEND Tribunal’s preference for child to attend independent school
- Re T – Secured contact for Grandparents, who had provided high level of care for the child, contrary to the wishes of the Mother
- K v H – Successfully argued against declaration of parentage in circumstances where paternity not in issue but mother’s motives were potentially harmful to the child
- B v W – Secured order for indirect contact only following fact-finding hearing about violent father
- C v P – Permission granted for child to move abroad despite shared care arrangement in place
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Interplay with other Areas
- B v M – Concurrent TOLATA and Schedule 1 proceedings in which offset sought from proprietary interest for past/future school fees
- M v S – Representing H in financial remedy proceedings concurrently with COP proceedings for W’s lack of capacity
- Re W – Disciplinary proceedings for misconduct, including applications for interim suspension, by the GSCC against a children’s Guardian;
- Re W – representing wife in ancillary relief proceedings concurrent with husband’s confiscation proceedings under the Proceeds of Crime Act;
- Re H – representing the intervening partner with a TOLATA claim against a property subject to a Proceeds of Crime Act confiscation order;
- Re I – representing the Crown Prosecution Service in financial remedy proceedings following confiscation proceedings under POCA.
