Legal Services Payment Orders
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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.
- Cases
- Non-Disclosure
- Adverse Inferences
- Freezing Injunctions
- Conduct
- 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.
- Cases
- Legal Services Payment Orders
- 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’.
- Blog
- Legal Services Payment Orders
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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
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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
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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
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Xanthopoulos v Rakshina [2024] EWCA Civ 1008 February 2024
Bean, King and Moylan LJJ. Costs judgment following the H’s successful appeal, during which the court considered applications for costs made by both parties and an LSPO previously made.
- Cases
- Costs
- Legal Services Payment Orders
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Williams v Williams [2023] EWHC 3098 (Fam)13 October 2023
Moor J. Refusal of a Hadkinson order during substantive proceedings. LSPO granted for proceedings and for overseas litigation.
- Cases
- Hadkinson Orders
- Overseas Assets
- Conduct
- Legal Services Payment Orders
The Intersection Between LSPOs and Economic Abuse
Recent years have seen increasing awareness of economic abuse, and how the financial remedy process can be manipulated as a tool of such abuse. However, one aspect of this has had little attention: the intersection between economic abuse and LSPOs.
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- Domestic Abuse
- Legal Services Payment Orders
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TK v AC [2023] EWHC 2958 (Fam)10 November 2023
Sir Jonathan Cohen: LSPO and Periodical Payments from debt. H appeal against orders allowed.
- Cases
- Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
- Variation Applications
- Appeals
- Legal Services Payment Orders
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