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Family proceedings

07 April 2017
Issue: 7741 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Norman v Norman [2017] EWCA Civ 120, [2017] All ER (D) 178 (Mar)

 

The Court of Appeal refused W’s application for permission to appeal against a decision to refuse an earlier application to set aside a consent order, she had been a party to, and agreed in 2005 with her former husband. That 2005 order had related to periodical maintenance payments due to W, and when they ought to end. It had effectively been W’s third application upon the same grounds and wholly reliant upon evidence she had had at her disposal at the time of her other two previous applications.

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