Ayesha Vardag, the founder of Ayesha Vardag Solicitors, acts for Katrin Radmacher, the German heiress who has won a landmark Court of Appeal case, where the judges ruled that prenuptial agreements should be taken into account by the courts in England and Wales when dividing assets in a divorce.
What were the main challenges in this case, and the possible implications?
We faced a whole bank of expectations and preconceived ideas about what was going to happen. We wanted to approach this not as “how it always is” but “how it could and should be”, looking rigorously at the law and exploring its possibilities in the light of social change and common sense.
The major implication of this case is that the 160-year ban on