Xanthopoulos v Rakshina

The applicant husband appeared in person Simon Calhaem (instructed by Family Law in Partnership) for the respondent wife Hearing date: 30 March 2022 ____________________

This judgment was delivered in private. The judge hereby gives permission � if permission is needed � for it to be published. The judge has made a reporting restriction order which provides that in no report of, or commentary on, the proceedings or this judgment may the children be named or their schools or address identified. Failure to comply with that order will be a contempt of court.

ii) the wife's application to be released from an undertaking given on 15 June 2021 that pending determination of the husband's financial claims she would preserve and not deal with, charge or in any way diminish an account with Coutts ("the Coutts account") and all sums contained therein ("the undertaking"). The Coutts account holds approximately �11 million.

i) Paragraph 15 of the High Court Statement of Efficient Conduct of Financial Remedy Proceedings provides that skeleton arguments for interim hearings must not exceed 10 pages. The husband's skeleton argument ran to 24 pages and the wife's skeleton argument ran to 14 pages.

ii) Skeleton arguments were due by 11:00 on the working day before this hearing. Both parties filed late. The husband's skeleton argument was filed only on the morning of the hearing. The wife's skeleton argument was filed at around 17:30 the day before the hearing.