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Guideline Hourly Rates on Costs

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

RN v DA (Divorce – Rescission of Decree Nisi) [2023] EWFC 255

Judgment date: 30 November 2023 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2023/255.html HHJ Vincent. Final Hearing of cross-applications to either grant a decree absolute out of time or rescind the decree nisi. Addendum judgment on anonymisation. HHJ Vincent. Divorce proceedings led to decree Nisi being pronounced

Richard Winter & Anor v Philip Winter & Anor [2023] EWHC 2393 (Ch)

Judgment date: 29 September 2023 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/ch/2023/2393 Zacaroli J. Claimants were two brothers, R and A, whose suit was against third brother, P, as executor of their father Albert’s estate, to challenge Albert’s 2015 Will, and the solicitors who drafted the

JN v GN [2023] EWFC 244

Judgment date: 21 November 2023 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2023/244.html DJ Hatvany. The parties were married for 23 years, having separated in 2013. W was 60 and H was 62. They had one adult child. W continued to reside in the family home following

O v O [2023] EWFC 161

Judgment date: 01 October 2023 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2023/161.html Recorder Laura Moys. 41-page decision following a three-day final hearing. H is a litigant in person. The parties’ relationship lasted 18 years and the marriage for 16 years. There are two children of the

The Use and Misuse of the Rubric in the Family Courts

The Use and Misuse of the Rubric in the Family Courts

In a familiar line of cases of which the first was BT v CU [2021] EWFC 87, [2022] 1 WLR 1349, paras [100]–[114], and the last In re PP (A Child: Anonymisation) [2023] EWHC 330 (Fam), [2023] 4 WLR 48, paras [49]–[62], and Augousti v Matharu [2023] EWHC

Galbraith-Marten v De Renée [2023] EWFC 253

Judgment date: 20 December 2023 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2023/253.html Cobb J. Application of James v Seymour formula for child maintenance under Sch 1 in this long-running case. The substantial history of this extremely long-running case is set out in prior decisions. Briefly, this