Rebecca Davies represented a former wife in her successful contempt application concerning a financial remedies judgment given in 2022.
The husband had failed to comply with an order to transfer a valuable property in Miami to the wife.
He had a history of continued non-compliance and non-co-operation with the entirety of HHJ Hess's order made in the financial remedies proceedings 4 years previously. Ongoing, there are concurrent enforcement proceedings against him in Miami and Nigeria in respect of that order.
The case involved Rebecca addressing:
- service complexities due to attempts at evasion
- the impact and role of contempt proceedings when considering the parallel multi-jurisdictional proceedings, and
- the fact that the husband had apparently not been in this jurisdiction for several years.
The court considered the contempt and the appropriate sentence, as well as the purpose of the making of such an order.
Rebecca obtained the order sought by her client - a finding of contempt and a committal to prison for the ex-husband if he returns to England.
The judge also made a costs order against him.
Read the full judgment in Odulate v Odulate [2026] EWFC 159