Index card R v R

R v R

Hearings

England & Wales

24 Jul 2015 [2015] EWCA Civ 796; [2016] Fam 153; [2016] 2 WLR 127; [2016] 1 All ER 50; [2015] WLR (D) 337, CA (Arden LJ, Ryder LJ, Briggs LJ)

Additional names

R v R (Divorce: Interim Maintenance: Circumvention of Sanctions Regime)

Subject Matter

EUROPEAN UNION — Common foreign and security policy — Restrictive measures — European Union sanctions freezing European assets of husband resident in Russia — Wife resident in United Kingdom applying for interim maintenance following divorce — Judge ordering payment by husband of interim maintenance into wife’s Russian bank account — Whether judge having jurisdiction to make order — Whether order circumventing prohibition in sanctions legislation — Ukraine (European Union Financial Sanctions) (No 2) Regulations 2014, regs 3, 10 — Council Regulation (EU) No 269/2014, arts 2, 5, 9

[2015] EWCA Civ 796; [2016] Fam 153; [2016] 2 WLR 127; [2016] 1 All ER 50; [2015] WLR (D) 337, CA

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