Legal Services Payment Orders
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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PM v RM [2025] EWFC 1120 January 2025
Mr Justin Warshaw KC sitting as a Deputy High Court judge. Application for maintenance pending suit, a legal services payment order and an injunction in a high value financial remedy case.
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- Disclosure
- Maintenance Pending Suit
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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
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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.
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- Financial Remedies Court (FRC)
- Maintenance Pending Suit
- Legal Services Payment Orders
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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
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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
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- Maintenance Pending Suit
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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
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- Legal Services Payment Orders
- Disclosure from Third Parties
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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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- Efficient Conduct
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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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.
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- Hadkinson Orders
- Contempt of Court
- Periodical Payments
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