Costs

T v T and Others (Disregard for Procedural Rules, Adjournment) [2025] EWFC 14 (B)

Judgment date: 29 January 2025 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2025/14 Recorder Chandler KC was forced to adjourn a three-day hearing in the face of W’s legal aid solicitors failing to comply with the Family Court’s procedures. The judge made it clear that where a

Transplanting Costs Order Principles to LSPOs and Legal Costs Funding 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 a legal services payment order (an LSPO) to meet the incurrence of future legal fees (whether the statutory jurisdiction under s 22ZA of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973

DF v YB (No 2: Costs) [2025] EWFC 76 (B)

Judgment date: 31 March 2025 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2025/76 Mr Nicholas Allen KC. Application for costs following a final hearing. Facts On 14 February 2025, Nicholas Allen KC handed down judgment in relation to the final hearing, which is published as DF v YB [2025]

D Culligan v A Culligan (No.2) (Costs and Anonymity) [2025] EWFC 26

Judgment date: 26 February 2025 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2025/26 Macdonald J. Background Judgment dealing solely with the issues of costs and whether the substantive judgment in the financial remedies proceedings handed down on 14 January 2025 should be anonymised. Costs W’s costs in this case

Mary-Jane Grace and Ian Douglas Grace [2025] EWFC 37 (B)

Judgment date: 10 January 2025 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2025/37 HHJ Farquhar. Straightforward financial remedy proceedings continued an additional 2½ years after the agreement at the FDR. Significant litigation misconduct, far beyond acceptable standards, resulting in striking delay and wasted costs orders; criticism also of conduct

MB v CD [2024] EWHC 751 (Fam)

Judgment date: 02 April 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2024/751 Judd J. This case concerned an application by the mother for a legal services payment order (LSPO) in respect of both financial remedy and Children Act 1989 proceedings. The mother sought an LSPO amounting to £143,