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Judgment Approved by the court for handing down. | Potanina v Potanin (No.2) |

ON APPEAL FROM THE HIGH COURT (FAMILY DIVISION)
The Hon Mr Justice Cohen
Royal Courts of Justice
Strand, London, WC2A 2LL
Before :
LORD JUSTICE MOYLAN
LADY JUSTICE FALK
and
LORD JUSTICE COBB
Between :
NATALIA NIKOLAEVNA POTANINA | Appellant |
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VLADIMIR OLEGOVICH POTANIN | Respondent |
POTANINA v POTANIN (No.2)
Charles Howard KC, Deepak Nagpal KC and Jennifer Palmer (instructed by Hughes Fowler Carruthers) for the Appellant
Lord Faulks KC, Rebecca Carew Pole KC, Rebecca Bailey-Harris (instructed by Payne Hicks Beach) for the Respondent
Hearing date : 22 July 2025
Approved Judgment
This judgment was handed down remotely at 10.30am on 4 September 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.
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Lord Justice Cobb :
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- Introduction
- Summary of the legal principles discussed in this appeal
- Background facts
- Application to adduce fresh evidence
- The statutory scheme as at November 2019
- Agbaje v Agbaje [2010] UKSC 13
- Judgment of Cohen J: November 2019: (Potanina (FD2))
- Judgment: Court of Appeal: May 2021: Potanina (CA1)
- Judgment: Supreme Court: January 2024: Potanina (SC)
- Grounds of Appeal
- The arguments on this appeal
- The test for leave under section 13 of the 1984 Act
- Ground of Appeal [13]: Discussion
- Ground of Appeal [12]: Discussion
- Conclusions
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