This Practice Note provides guidance on the assessment of costs in family proceedings, including summary assessment and detailed assessment. It looks at assessment on the...
A Calderbank offer is a settlement offer marked ‘without prejudice save as to costs’. Whether a Calderbank offer is admissible, and what weight will be given to it, will...
This Practice Note explains the principles applied in relation to costs in children proceedings (private and public) and the limited circumstances in which an order for...
General principles The relevant costs provisions are set out in the Family Procedure Rules 2010 (FPR 2010), SI 2010/2955, Pt 28 and FPR 2010, PD 28A. Certain parts of the...
General provisions The court may make, at any time, such order as to costs as it thinks just. By virtue of the Family Procedure Rules 2010 (FPR 2010), SI 2010/2955,...
General principles In children proceedings the general rule that costs will follow the event does not apply. Express statutory provision is made in the Family Procedure...
Failure to advise on legal aid eligibility may amount to negligence, even where a firm does not carry out legal aid work, and a client’s potential eligibility for legal...
This Practice Note is impacted by the exit of the UK from the EU on 31 January 2020. This has implications for practitioners considering which courts have jurisdiction to...
Misconduct and wasted costs orders A wasted costs order is an order: • that a legal representative pay a sum (either specified or to be assessed) in respect of costs to a...