Costs
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Simon v Simon [2025] EWFC 897 April 2025
Peel J. Cost judgment from Peel J in ‘highly unusual’ financial remedy proceedings, in which a litigation loan provider successfully applied to be joined and to set aside a consent order which prevented them recovering a loan to W.
- Cases
- Conduct
- Costs
- Joinder of Third Parties
- Efficient Conduct
- Consent Orders
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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T v T and Others (Disregard for Procedural Rules, Adjournment) [2025] EWFC 14 (B)29 January 2025
Recorder Chandler KC was forced to adjourn a three-day hearing in the face of W’s legal aid solicitors failing to comply with the Family Court’s procedures. The judge made it clear that where a legally represented applicant failed to comply with the Family Procedure Rules, practice directions and the Statement of Efficient Conduct relevant to preparing a case for a hearing, it was likely there would be costs consequences.
- Cases
- Costs
- Bundles
- Efficient Conduct
Transplanting Costs Order Principles to LSPOs and Legal Costs Funding Orders
In family proceedings, the court has two key tools at its disposal to address the funding of litigation. The first is via an LSPO to meet the incurrence of future legal fees, and the second, quite distinct in nature and purpose, is a costs order, providing for one party to pay the costs that have already been incurred by the other party.
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- Costs
- Legal Services Payment Orders
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DF v YB (No 2: Costs) [2025] EWFC 76 (B)31 March 2025
Mr Nicholas Allen KC. Application for costs following a final hearing.
- Cases
- NCDR
- Costs
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D Culligan v A Culligan (No.2) (Costs and Anonymity) [2025] EWFC 2626 February 2025
Judgment dealing solely with the issues of costs and whether the substantive judgment in the financial remedies proceedings handed down on 14 January 2025 should be anonymised.
- Cases
- Anonymity and Transparency
- Costs
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Mary-Jane Grace and Ian Douglas Grace [2025] EWFC 37 (B)10 January 2025
HHJ Farquhar. Straightforward financial remedy proceedings continued an additional 2½ years after the agreement at the FDR. Significant litigation misconduct, far beyond acceptable standards, resulting in striking delay and wasted costs orders; criticism also of conduct of W’s solicitor. The judgment provides useful guidance on anonymisation in financial remedy judgments where there is litigation misconduct.
- Cases
- Anonymity and Transparency
- Conduct
- Delay
- Costs
- Litigation Misconduct
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MB v CD [2024] EWHC 751 (Fam)2 April 2024
Judd J. This case concerned an application by the mother for an LSPO in respect of both financial remedy and Children Act 1989 proceedings.
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- Housing Need
- Costs
- Legal Services Payment Orders
- Needs
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WX v HX [2023] EWFC 279 (B)21 December 2023
Mr Recorder Day’s judgment in a case involving complex procedural history, intervenors, non-disclosure and a ‘fragile’ business valuation. Of note is Recorder Day’s inclusion of his earlier decision to refuse a Hadkinson order. The judgment sets out the law of financial remedies clearly and succinctly: it should be mandatory reading for pupils/trainees.
- Cases
- Hadkinson Orders
- Disclosure
- Costs
- Business Valuation
- Valuations
- Intervenors
Arbitrating Costs Provision Applications
There have been few seismic changes in family law that reshaped everything. Much as we would love suddenly to have a new landscape for our professional work, most of us can only hope to find small solutions that work for some small corner of one field. However, bit by bit this may all contribute to an evolving and improving climate in which families change and start their new chapters. Here we hope is one more such.
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- Costs
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EC v JC [2024] EWFC 175 (B)13 June 2024
DJ Hatvany. Final financial remedies hearing in a where the assets were modest. The parties were married for 11 years and had twin boys aged 9. An unfortunate feature of this case was that both parties had incurred large costs, which would make clearing their debt on both sides and enabling both parties to rehouse in a three-to-four-bedroom properties close to the boy’s school problematic.
- Cases
- Housing Need
- Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
- Litigation Funding
- Costs
- Debts
- Modest Asset Cases
- Needs
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