Case No. FD11D02580
Family Court

Case No. FD11D02580

Fecha: 29-Jul-2022

The Law

55.H brings his application pursuant to s 31F(6) of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 which provides that the court may vary, suspend, rescind or revive any order which it has made and extends that power to rescind an order and relist the application in respect of which it was made.56.In essence he alleges that the 2016 consent order was made on an erroneous basis of fact and that both he and the court were misled at the November 2016 hearing because the ‘assurance’ given by W, and reflected in paragraph 8.2 of the order, amounted to material non-disclosure in that it was false and she knew it to be so. In circumstances where a court is satisfied that a party’s non-disclosure was intentional (and thus fraudulent), it is deemed to be material such that it is presumed that proper disclosure would have led to a different order unless that party can show, on the balance of probabilities, that it would not have done so: see Gohil v Gohil [2015] 2 FLR 1289 per Lord Neuberger at para 44.Strike-out57.For the purposes of the strike-out application with which I have been dealing, the relevant parts of FPR r 4.4(1) provide as follows:- 4.4