Case No. ZZ20D65691
Family Court

Case No. ZZ20D65691

Fecha: 14-Nov-2022

I accept, in accordance with authority, that the children should be able to have a lifestyle that is not entirely out of kilter with that enjoyed by them in Dubai and that enjoyed by HH and his family

. I accept, of course, that it will be quite impossible to replicate, pound for pound, the standard of living they enjoyed before their parents separated but I am going to be generous and accept many of the figures put forward by HRH.” (emphasis added)Here the criterion is that the children should be entitled to a lifestyle that is “not entirely out of kilter” with that enjoyed by them before the breakdown of the marriage, and that currently enjoyed by the father and his family. If I may respectfully say so, that rubric is an impeccable summary of the relevant principles and is one which I intend to adopt in this case. 137.That wife’s budget of £17.5 million included very high additional security costs of £2.45 million when on holiday, £750,000 for running an office in each of London and Amman, £550,000 for the legal and professional fees of running the trusts that owned the wife’s homes, together with other highly atypical expenses referable to the status of the wife and the children (“the atypical expenses”). The figures in the judgment are not complete. Doing the best I can, I calculate that the typical expenses claimed by that wife were just under £11 million which Moor J reduced by 27% to just under £8 million, as per the table below. It can be seen that the largest cuts were in respect of holiday flights and leisure. The nature of the leisure expenses which were in part disallowed have been obscured in the judgment, so it is difficult to understand this aspect.138.Moor J made a HECSA that covered (a) the atypical expenses in the sum of £3,224,714, and (b) the typical categories of expenditure tabulated above totalling £7,930,267. This produced a total award of £11,154,981, rounded to £11.2 million, which was divided equally between the two children.