Hearings
England & Wales
14 May 2001 [2001] EWCA Civ 679; [2002] Fam 97; [2001] 3 WLR 684; [2001] 2 FLR 192, CA (Thorpe, Robert Walker and Mance LJJ)
19 Nov 2001 (pet dis) [2001] 1 WLR 2287, HL(E)
Cowan v Cowan
Subject Matter
HUSBAND AND WIFE — Financial provision — Lump sum award — Means of parties — Family business built up over long period of marriage — Husband's exceptional entrepreneurial skill — Wife's reasonable requirements no longer relevant criterion — Calculation of effect of equal division as check against discrimination — Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, s 25 (as substituted by Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984, s 3)
[2001] EWCA Civ 679; [2002] Fam 97; [2001] 3 WLR 684; [2001] 2 FLR 192, CA