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- An interim application within long running financial remedy proceedings. H's arrears in respect of MPS and legal services provision for W stood at €60,000 and £90,000 respectively. W's objective at this hearing was to seek to secure the delivery of H's Bentley to her agents with the intention that it be transported to England to be marketed and sold, and the net proceeds of sale be held pending determination of her enforcement application. Sir Peter Singer directed that the Bentley be placed in the custody of W’s agents to be transported to England and kept here pending the outcome of applications relating to previous MPS and legal services orders. Judgment, 02/03/2015, free
- Costs order made against Capita after they failed to provide interpreters in a public law case, leading to the adjournment of the hearing. Judgment, 06/02/2015, free
- This case concerned a claimant with fluctuating capacity to conduct legal proceedings. At a time when she had capacity, she retained a firm of solicitors under a conditional fee agreement ("CFA"). The issue was whether the CFA terminated automatically by reason of frustration when she subsequently lost capacity, so that it did not govern the continued conduct of the proceedings by a receiver/deputy appointed by the Court of Protection to act on her behalf. The judge sitting in the QBD ruled that the CFA was not frustrated. The appeal against that decision was dismissed. The fact that supervening incapacity prevented the claimant from giving instructions personally did not render the contract of retainer impossible of performance; it simply gave rise to a short period of delay pending appointment of a receiver/deputy who could continue the conduct of the proceedings on the claimant's behalf and give instructions to the solicitors for that purpose. Judgment, 29/01/2015, free
- Husband's application for permission to appeal an order which dismissed his application for financial provision after he had refused an offer from the wife resulting in excessive costs being incurred by her. Application refused. Judgment, 18/12/2014, free
- ToLATA case in which Mr Justice Holman expressed his exasperation at the disproportionate costs that had been incurred relative to the value of the available assets, and the volume of documentation which had been produced in contravention of PD 27A, limiting bundles to 350 pages of A4 unless the court gives permission otherwise. Judgment, 05/12/2014, free
- Judgment in financial remedy proceedings involving inter-company debts, assets and businesses in Belgium and France and an order for costs against the husband of £456k Judgment, 03/12/2014, free
- Husband's appeal against various financial provision orders and against an order that he pay 100% of the wife's costs. Judgment, 21/11/2014, free
- An order for costs was made against the Father because he had deliberately sought to obscure his daughter's habitual residence which was found to be the UK not Israel. In the words of the judge: "he knew full well how unhappy his daughter had been [in Israel].He was simply determined to get the outcome to the litigation he wanted..." Judgment, 13/11/2014, free
- Financial provision case in which the parties had spent a total of £920,000 on costs where the total assets amounted to £2.9m. Judgment, 13/11/2014, free
- Judgment concerning costs in private law children proceedings. Gloster LJ allows the mother's appeal against a costs order as conduct was not 'unreasonable or reprehensible' and therefore the judge had been wrong in principle to make such an order. Judgment, 05/11/2014, free