Wife Keeps Files in Super-Rich Divorce Case

A ‘super-rich’ husband will be regretting that he shared a computer system with his wife’s brothers after she was able to access the system and extract data from it. The husband challenged her right to the data but the court agreed that she could make use of thousands of emails and seven computer files to which no claim of legal privilege could be substantiated.

The financial settlement on the couple’s divorce, which involves family wealth of £300 million or more and a complex system of offshore trusts and companies, is expected to take more than a year to conclude.

In general, a spouse’s records which are not subject to legal professional privilege and which are not obtained through force or deceit may be copied for use in negotiating the arrangements on separation or divorce.