Setting aside a financial order on the basis of mistake
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Where the court, through no fault or intentional non-disclosure of the parties, did not have the full facts before it when making the order, the court may set it aside on the basis of 'mistake'. However, an applicant must show that had the full/true facts been known, the court would have made a substantially different order. They must also demonstrate that it was not their fault that the court was not presented with the full facts, and that they could not have reasonably established them. For an order to be set aside on this basis is exceedingly rare, though possible.

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