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Costs: A marriage of necessity?
Chrissie Cuming Walters explores the interrelationship between costs allowances and legal services orders ‘The difference between legal services orders and costs allowance orders is that the former is subject to the application of more stringent statutory principles while the latter remains open to wider judicial interpretation and discretion.’The terms ‘costs allowance order’ and ‘legal services …
Cases Referenced
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- A v A (maintenance pending suit: provision of legal fees) [2001] 1 FLR 377
- CF v KM (Financial Provision for Child: Costs of Legal Proceedings) [2010] EWHC 1754 (Fam)
- Currey v Currey (No. 2) [2006] EWCA Civ 1338
- MG & anor v JF & anor [2015] EWHC 564 (Fam)
- Moses-Taiga v Taiga [2005] EWCA Civ 1013
- Re T (Children) [2012] UKSC 36
- Rubin v Rubin [2014] EWHC 611 (Fam)
- TL v ML & ors [2005] EWHC 2860 (Fam)