CA-2024-000509 - [2025] EWCA Civ 1055

The judge should have found the wife knowingly to have made a false and material non-disclosure. Her misrepresentation of her wealth was a vitiating factor particularly in circumstances of the husband having received only preliminary legal advice;

The judge was wrong to have upheld an agreement which was signed only on the day of the wedding;

The husband had been placed under undue pressure to sign the agreement;

The wife was in breach of paragraph 32 of the agreement having failed to mediate following the breakdown of the marriage;

The judge failed was adequately to provide for the husband’s needs in that the provision for housing inadequate;

The judge had been guilty of gender discrimination in that the needs provision made by the judge for the husband was substantially less than the provision which would have been made to a wife in similar circumstances.