Costs

DH v RH (No 4) (Costs) [2024] EWFC 114

Judgment date: 24 May 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/114 MacDonald J. Costs judgment following hearing in contentious case involving costs amounting to 23% of the assets. For previous judgments in this case, see below. By the time of this hearing, the costs amounted to £1m for

DH v RH (No 3) (Final Hearing) [2024] EWFC 79

Judgment date: 18 April 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/79 MacDonald J. Final hearing in contentious case involving high legal costs and allegations of wanton dissipation. W was aged 55 and H 58. Married July 1995. Two children aged 18 and 16 respectively. The parties had lived

VS v OP (Litigation Misconduct, Quasi-Inquisitorial Approach and Inferences) [2024] EWFC 190 (B)

Judgment date: 18 July 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/190 Recorder Chandler KC’s final order was 67% to H and 33% to W, the non-compliant party, and an SPP order in W’s favour even though she did not attend, had not made full disclosure

AB v BA [2024] EWHC 1179 (Fam)

Judgment date: 05 March 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2024/1179 Cusworth J. Appeals allowed against instalment quantum for payment of costs and the requirement for permission to enforce further costs orders. Financial remedy proceedings concluded in summer 2019 with joint lives maintenance. Two subsequent costs orders

UD v TQ [2024] EWFC 119 (B)

Judgment date: 26 April 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/119 HHJ Hess. Final hearing in case involving footballer. Application of Moher in light of H’s misconduct and attachment of earnings order made to secure maintenance. W is aged 27, a former television presenter living abroad

BC v SC [2023] EWFC 307 (B)

Judgment date: 12 December 2023 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2023/307 DDJ Holmes-Milner. FR decision at DDJ level. Consideration of treatment of critical illness payout for H’s cancer. H is a chartered accountant aged 46 and W a teacher aged 47. Two children, one an adult

DR Corner: Introducing Assent: Combining Arbitration and Private FDRs in a Streamlined Process based on the FPR Directions

DR Corner: Introducing Assent: Combining Arbitration and Private FDRs in a Streamlined Process based on the FPR Directions

Anyone who has tried to arrange a Private Financial Dispute Resolution (pFDR) will be familiar with that sinking feeling when the process is slipping away. It starts with a low-level dispute over the judge, the date or the location of the hearing. Then a seemingly innocuous question about disclosure. A