Costs
The Threat of Adverse Costs Orders in Financial Remedy Cases Has Just Got Higher – Peel J in HO v TL
Peel J’s substantive judgment in HO v TL [2023] EWFC 215 is a compelling masterclass in addressing principle, guidance and the clear disposal of a smorgasbord of financial remedy issues within a must-read 27-page judgment for matrimonial finance practitioners.
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- Costs
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AXA v BYB (QLR: Financial Remedies) [2023] EWFC 251 (B)18 December 2023
Recorder Rhys Taylor. First example of a Qualified Legal Representative (QLR) being used in a financial remedy proceedings.
- Cases
- Disclosure
- Debts
- Costs
- Qualified Legal Representative
- Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
Guideline Hourly Rates on Costs
In H v GH [2023] EWFC 235 Simon Colton KC, sitting as a deputy High Court judge, struck out a husband’s application to extend payment of a lump sum for two years. When he then proceeded to summarily assess the costs he raised with the parties the relevance, or not, in the Family Court, of the guideline hourly rates (GHR) published as part of the Guide to the Summary Assessment of Costs.
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- Guideline Hourly Rates
- Costs
!12/01/2024 11:25
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JN v GN [2023] EWFC 24421 November 2023
DJ Hatvany. Final hearing of wife’s financial remedy application in a small money case.
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- Inheritance
- Delay
- Costs
- Mortgages
- Housing Need
- Conduct
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H v GH [2023] EWFC 2357 December 2023
Simon Colton KC. Strike out of an application to extend time for payment of a lump sum.
- Cases
- Lump Sum
- Costs
- Guideline Hourly Rates
- Striking Out Applications
- Masefield v Alexander
- Extension of Time
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Y v Z [2023] EWFC 20526 October 2023
HHJ Hess. H and W divorced in 2013 following a 14-year marriage. H had maintained a successful career working in business finance.
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- Litigation Friend
- Variation Applications
- Costs
- Capacity
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Seales v Seales (Ancillary Relief: Murder and Coercive Control as Conduct) [2023] NIMaster 629 August 2023
Ancillary relief application in which the W was seeking to run a ‘conduct case’ based, in part, on the H’s conviction for murder.
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- Add-Backs
- Costs
- Conduct
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JD v RMD [2023] EWFC 12514 July 2023
DDJ Hodson. A financial remedy application where the debts and costs exceeded the assets.
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- Costs
- Debts
Koukash v Koukash – Can a Party Waive Privilege on Their Own WP Offer?
The heightened importance of negotiating openly and reasonably has led to parties seeking to unilaterally open up without prejudice offers, based on a misunderstanding of the distinction between without prejudice privilege and legal professional privilege. Both are common law rules and affect the admissibility of evidence. However they otherwise have nothing to do with one another.
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- Waiver of Privilege
- Costs
- Privilege
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Susan Nancy Baker v Andrew Hartill Baker [2023] EWFC 13611 August 2023
Final hearing of W’s financial remedies claim, in which the main issue was whether H should be held to the terms of a separation agreement executed by the parties in New York in 2015.
- Cases
- Costs
- Disclosure
- Conduct
- Separation Agreement