Recent guidance on the extension of time to bring a 1975 Act claim Section 4 of the 1975 Act provides that an application shall not, except with the permission of the court, be made after 6 months from the date on which representation is taken out. Earlier this year, in Cowan v Foreman [2019] EWHC […]
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On 20 May 2020, general guidance was published on PDF Bundles: https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/GENERAL-GUIDANCE-ON-PDF-BUNDLES-f-1.pdf The following points are of note: The guidance does not apply to tribunals. The guidance is general and is subject to directions of the court or the requirements of a judge in a particular case. Bundles must, where the nature of the document […]
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SUCCESS FEE RECOVERABILITY IN 1975 ACT CLAIMS: RE H [2020] EWHC 1134 (FAM) The general rule in civil litigation is that costs “follow the event”. In an article I wrote for the special issue of Civil Justice Quarterly on Civil Litigation Costs, Vol. 32 pages 109-312 Issue 2 2013, I discussed the negative impact that […]
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