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.

• Cases

• Housing Need
• Costs
• Legal Services Payment Orders
• Needs

• Stephanie Coker

SM v BA (Legal Services Payment Order) [2025] EWFC 710 January 2025

Nicholas Allen KC sitting as a deputy High Court judge. Application for a legal services payment order within high net worth financial remedy proceedings.

• Cases

• Financial Remedies Court (FRC)
• Maintenance Pending Suit
• Legal Services Payment Orders

• Katie Stephens

HA v EN [2025] EWHC 48 (Fam)15 January 2025

Deputy High Court Judge Richard Todd KC. Application by W for maintenance pending suit (MPS) and a legal services payment order (LSPO) in protracted financial remedy proceedings.

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• Interim Relief
• Maintenance Pending Suit
• Legal Services Payment Orders

• Ella Fogg

KV v KV [2024] EWFC 1653 July 2024

Peel J. Application by W for (i) Maintenance Pending Suit pursuant to s 22 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 and (ii) a Legal Services Payment Order pursuant to s 22ZA of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973.

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• Foreign Assets
• Interim Relief
• Jurisdiction
• Maintenance Pending Suit
• Legal Services Payment Orders

• Sophie Cullis

Abigail Laura Williams v Andrew John Williams [2024] EWFC 2756 August 2024

Final order of Moor J in financial remedy proceedings involving a husband who had continually breached court orders, failed to attend hearings, and provided unreliable and ‘demonstrably untrue’ evidence.

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• Non-Disclosure
• Adverse Inferences
• Freezing Injunctions
• Conduct
• Legal Services Payment Orders
• Disclosure from Third Parties

• Jemima Kearney

RG v TA (Appeal: Legal Services Funding Order: Schedule 1 Children Act 1989) [2023] EWHC 3155 (Fam)6 October 2023

Roberts J. Appeal from HHJ Ellis who had refused F’s application for a legal services payment order of £125,000 in relation to his s 8 and Schedule 1 applications.

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• Legal Services Payment Orders
• Efficient Conduct

• Polly Morgan | Case Editor

Notionally Flawed? Notional Assessments in LSPO Applications

The past weeks have brought two more High Court judgments considering the practice of deducting a percentage from an LSPO applicant’s costs provision by way of a ‘notional standard assessment’.

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• Legal Services Payment Orders

• Henry Hood
• Anna Roiser

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WJB v HJM [2024] EWFC 116 (B)15 February 2024

District Judge Ashworth. This was an application by W for a Hadkinson order preventing H from pursuing his application to vary an order for periodical payments made in 2017.

• Cases

• Hadkinson Orders
• Contempt of Court
• Periodical Payments
• Costs
• Legal Services Payment Orders
• Enforcement

• Stephanie Coker

JK v LM [2024] EWHC 1442 (Fam)23 May 2024

Cobb J. The case concerned four applications by the mother for an LSPO to cover the costs of her legal representation in ongoing proceedings under Schedule 1 (where she sought financial provision for the six-year old child) and s 8 CA 1989.

• Cases

• Freezing Injunctions
• Land Registration Act 2002
• Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
• Legal Services Payment Orders

• Stephanie Coker

Williams v Williams [2023] EWHC 2479 (Fam)28 February 2024

Moor J: H held in contempt for failing to comply with orders; sentenced to 56 days’ imprisonment, suspended for 28 days, to allow filing of sworn Form E.

• Cases

• Freezing Injunctions
• Committal Applications and Judgment Summonses
• Costs
• Legal Services Payment Orders

• Liam Kelly