Case No. NP20D02617

65.The open negotiations can be summarised as follows:i)On 20 January 2021, H offered to pay a lump sum of £75,000.ii)On 21 June 2021, H offered to pay a lump sum of £375,000. At that stage W’s outstanding costs were said to be something in excess of £30,000, so that the offer would have been worth some £340,000 to her.iii)On 8 July 2021, W sought a lump sum of £1,030,096 and a pension sharing order over 14.3% of H’s SIPP.iv)On 19 October 2021, H offered to pay a lump sum of £465,091 to be reduced pound-for-pound with the amount paid by way of LSPO and MPS. Mr Bates, on behalf of H, calculated the net lump sum offered as being £305,685.v)On 2 November 2021, W sought a lump sum of £1,050,601 and a pension sharing order over 14.3% of H’s SIPP.66.The open offers above were all made on a clean break basis. 67.The parties did not modify their open positions during the course of the final hearing.