Legal Services Payment Orders

DH v RH

DH v RH

In our recent article for the Financial Remedies Journal, ‘Living under an LSPO’, Amy Scollan and I explored the many challenges of those operating under a Legal Services Payment Order (LSPO) and the need for Court of Appeal guidance. The recent judgment in DH v RH [2023] EWFC 111 creates

Living under an LSPO

Living under an LSPO

Commentary on legal services payment orders (LSPOs) often concerns their effect on those required to fund them. That is not hard to understand. The (usually) substantial payment to an opposing firm to fund work perceived as contrary to the payer’s interest is never an enjoyable experience, however important a

Xanthopoulos v Rakshina [2023] EWFC 50

Judgment date: 04 April 2023 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2023/50 Sir Jonathan Cohen. The latest and, one hopes, final episode in a legal saga involving financial remedy, jurisdiction and children litigation spaning 60 hearings between Russia and England, in which H alone had sought counsel and legal

Xanthopoulos v Rakshina [2022] EWFC 30

Judgment date: 12 April 2022 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2022/30.html Mostyn J. Comprehensive survey of law on anonymisation of judgments; [74]–[142]. Correct question is 'Why is it in the public interest that the parties should be anonymous?' rather than 'Why

MG v GM [2022] EWFC 8

Judgment date: 01 March 2022 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2022/8.html MPS and LSPO application by W in a case described by Peel J as 'a battle royale' ([3]). Each party denied holding liquid assets, and asserted the other had access to significant

CW v CH (MFPA 1984 Part III: Interim Applications) [2022] EWFC B1

Judgment date: 10 January 2022 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2022/B1.html Rec. Allen Wife’s application under MFPA 1984 Part III for interim periodical payments and a costs allowance for legal fees. Dispute as to whether W had valid claim, to be addressed at substantive

J v J [2014] EWHC 3654 (Fam)

Judgment date: 06 November 2014 http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2014/3654.html