Costs

HO v TL (Costs) [2023] EWFC 216

Judgment date: 01 December 2023 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2023/216 Peel J. Costs judgment in relation to the FR proceedings which are summarised here. Each party sought costs against the other. Starting point was each should pay their own costs. Peel J refers to his summary of

BR v BR [2024] EWFC 11

Judgment date: 30 January 2024 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2024/11.html Peel J. When should a single joint expert (SJE) be instructed rather than two or more separately instructed experts in financial remedy proceedings? Both parties sought to separately instruct sole experts, one for each

The Threat of Adverse Costs Orders in Financial Remedy Cases Has Just Got Higher – Peel J in HO v TL

The Threat of Adverse Costs Orders in Financial Remedy Cases Has Just Got Higher – Peel J in HO v TL

Peel J’s substantive judgment in HO v TL [2023] EWFC 215 is a compelling masterclass in addressing principle, guidance and the clear disposal of a smorgasbord of financial remedy issues within a must-read 27-page judgment for matrimonial finance practitioners. Costs approach However, it is the costs order which followed

AXA v BYB (QLR: Financial Remedies) [2023] EWFC 251 (B)

Judgment date: 18 December 2023 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2023/251.html Recorder Rhys Taylor. Facts W (36) and H (41) married in 2017 and separated in 2022. The parties had one child, a daughter, aged 3. Aside from the FMH which had equity of £100,

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

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

H v GH [2023] EWFC 235

Judgment date: 07 December 2023 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2023/235.html Simon Colton KC. Strike out of an application to extend time for payment of a lump sum. On 10 December 2018 Roberts J ordered (by consent) that H was to pay a lump sum