One of Germany's wealthiest women is seeking to enforce a pre-nuptial agreement that would leave her former investment banker husband with nothing in the latest landmark divorce case to hit the British courts.
Katrin Radmacher, a paper industry heiress worth an estimated £100m (€112.6m), claims that her estranged spouse is trying to renege on a deal made before they married in London in 1998, in which he agreed not to make a claim against her in the event of a separation.
If she is successful, the case could overturn the long-standing principle that pre-nuptial contracts, widely recognised in Europe and the US, are not legally binding in England.