Legal Services Payment Orders
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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- Periodical Payments
- Enforcement
- Legal Services Payment Orders
- Costs
- Hadkinson Orders
- Contempt of Court
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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.
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- Freezing Injunctions
- Land Registration Act 2002
- Legal Services Payment Orders
- Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
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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.
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- Committal Applications and Judgment Summonses
- Freezing Injunctions
- 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.
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- 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.
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- Overseas Assets
- Conduct
- Hadkinson Orders
- 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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TK v AC [2023] EWHC 2958 (Fam)10 November 2023
Sir Jonathan Cohen: LSPO and Periodical Payments from debt. H appeal against orders allowed.
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- Legal Services Payment Orders
- Appeals
- Variation Applications
- Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
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DH v RH (No 2) (Variation of Interim Arrangements) [2023] EWFC 21028 November 2023
MacDonald J. Variation of LSPO and interim maintenance.
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- Maintenance Pending Suit
- Legal Services Payment Orders
- Variation Applications
- Disclosure
- Release from Undertakings
- Interim Relief
- Enforcement
- Freezing Injunctions
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HAT v LAT [2023] EWFC 16229 September 2023
Peel J. Application by W for MPS and LSPO where the parties had entered into and implemented a Deed of Separation 30 years ago.
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- Legal Services Payment Orders
- Maintenance Pending Suit
- Agreements
- Delay