Gallagher-Appleton split tops £800k
Judge Martin O’Dwyer has ruled assets should be split in half and said Gallagher and Appleton should each get about £5.5m.
He said the level of spending on legal costs had been “manifestly excessive”.
Gallagher and Appleton had argued over money at a private family court hearing earlier this year.
Limits were placed on what the public could be told about that hearing, but Judge O’Dwyer has now ruled much of his judgment in the case can be reported.
The judge published a ruling after analysing issues around reporting at a hearing in the Central Family Court in London.
He had analysed the dispute at a hearing in the same court a few months ago.
Neither Gallagher, 43, a former member of Oasis, nor Appleton, 41, a singer with the group All Saints, were at yesterday’s hearing. They had attended the earlier hearing.
The judge said Gallagher and Appleton had started living together about 15 years ago, had married in 2008, and separated in 2013, and they have a son together.
He said they had “lived a very good lifestyle”.
He raised concerns about the amount of money the couple had spent on lawyers, and said: “The level of costs in this case, totalling over £800,000, are manifestly excessive for the determination of the dispute, which involves capital sums not much greater at the end of the day than £10 m.”
The judge concluded Gallagher and Appleton had assets totalling £10.8m and each should get £5.4m.
Gallagher told the judge that he “currently” has “no prospect” of re-entering the music business. He told the judge he would like Oasis to reform — but he did not anticipate that being possible.
Judge O’Dwyer explained in his ruling how Gallagher had been a member of the “well-known music group Oasis”, adding
: “Although he expressly would like to re-enter the music business, currently he says there is no prospect of that.”
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