In our 60 second interview series, Citywealth speaks to Ros Bever, national head of family law at Irwin Mitchell Private Wealth, about meeting client’s raised expectations and how winning is sometimes about compromise.
Read moreThe judgement in Roocroft and Ball is handed down exactly a year after Irwin Mitchell was also successful in the Supreme Court when the law firm represented two wives – Varsha Gohil and Alison Sharland, who challenged their divorce settlements after their husbands were found to have misled them significantly regarding their wealth.
This latest landmark case led by Ros Bever is the first in legal history to consider the discovery of non-disclosure of assets after the death of one of the parties.
Helen Roocroft discovered that her civil partner, who died intestate in 2013, and appeared in The Sunday Times Rich List, seemed to have hidden assets worth millions of pounds in business assets during the dissolution of their relationship, won the legal battle at the Court of Appeal to set aside an original “unfair” settlement.
In our 60 second interview series, Citywealth speaks to Ros Bever, national head of family law at Irwin Mitchell Private Wealth, about meeting client’s raised expectations and how winning is sometimes about compromise.
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