Focus: McCartney divorce
Mr Justice Bennett has issued a summary of his judgment handed down after hearing the Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills divorce case in private.
The judge said the fundamental issue was what financial provision should be made for Miss Mills, and that she had sought an award of almost £125m.
Sir Paul proposed his wife should exit the marriage with assets of £15.8m, inclusive of any lump sum award.
Mr Justice Bennett ruled that Sir Paul McCartney should pay Heather Mills a lump sum of £16.5m, together with assets - including property - of £7.8m.
This means she will exit the marriage with £24.3m, inclusive of a deemed figure of £500,000 referable to her overspending while they were separated.
The judge found the total value of the ex-Beatle's assets, including business assets, was about £400m and not £800m.
Although Heather Mills and Sir Paul McCartney met in 1999 and formed a relationship, they did not cohabit until they married on June 11, 2002.
They separated in April 2006, meaning the length of their marriage was just under four years.
The judge refused to permit either party to raise as an issue the alleged conduct of the other on the broad ground that it was irrelevant.
The lump sum of £16.5m is made up of a sum of £14m as the capitalised figure for Miss Mills's income needs and a sum of £2.5m to buy a property in London.
Financial provision for their daughter, Beatrice, consists of a payments of £35,000 per annum, with Sir Paul paying for her nanny and her school fees.
The judge expressed his confidence that the media would respect the privacy and confidentiality of the Children Act.
Surrounded by a media scrum outside the High Court, Miss Mills said the £24.3m settlement secured her own future and that of the couple's daughter Beatrice.
Describing herself as a "campaigning girl" she called on people to represent themselves in court but urged couples to do their best to resolve problems.
She said: "It was an incredible result to secure our future and that of all the charities that I plan on helping."
Heather Mills said her parting from her lawyers Mishcon de Reya was amicable but said they wanted an extra £600,000 "which could easily go to charity".
But she lashed out at Sir Paul's legal representative Fiona Shackleton, who she said had "handled this in the worst manner you could ever, ever imagine".
Urging others to follow her example and represent themselves as a litigant in person, she cited "the power of one".
Standing alongside her sister Fiona at the High Court, Miss Mills made an impassioned statement to the media.
She said the reason she was speaking out was because Sir Paul had "insisted" on the whole judgment being published, which she was to appeal against.
She said not having a redacted version of the judgment, which would protect their daughter Beatrice, went against everything to do with human rights.