Friday 19 February 2016

‘Titanic divorce battle’

In numbers…
1970 - The year the couple married
2013 - The year the couple separated
43 - years of marriage
£30 million - The cost of the mansion in Hertfordshire that the couple moved to before they separated
£6.1 million - The legal bill so far
£66 million - Dr Khoo’s claimed net worth
£440 million - His net worth according to Ms Chai, the ex-wife of Dr Khoo
21 - Days given to Khoo Kay Peng to make a settlement offer to his wife in this big money divorce
7 - Days given to Ms Chai to say what offer she is willing to accept
1st of its kind - The description of the order by Georgina Hamblin who is acting on behalf of Ms Chai

15 days - expected length of the full court hearing if the parties still cannot settle.….Let’s hope that it doesn’t get to that! It’s already one of the most expensive divorces to come before English courts.

Full story and stats from The Telegraph, to read more click here

Tuesday 2 February 2016

The strange case of the ‘alleged’ Tipp-Ex doctored documents

Sally Nightingale is fighting to see her former husband jailed as she claimed she had been deliberately mislead, after accusing him of doctoring important documents with Tipp-Ex.

The details are being argued in the Family Division of the High Court in London.

Mr Nightingale had previously agreed to give his wife a quarter (worth approximately £1.5 million) of his holding in a Dublin computer systems firm.  The amount became significantly reduced - a meagre £75, as he claimed the sale had been ‘very hard work’ and he had only received £330.

Patric Chamberlain QC who is representing Mrs Nightingale, highlighted that despite being ordered to do so Mr Nightingale had not produced all of the relevant documents.  Adding that ‘it became clear that he had doctored documents with Tipp-Ex and covered up photocopying in order to conceal the truth’.

The case is set to return to the High Court at a later date and I will be interested to see the outcome to this.

I think we can all learn that creatively using Tipp-Ex on important documents is certainly not right nor a clever thing to to do!

Read more on this Telegraph story here.