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Inheritance: What is financial need?
Sophia Rogers looks at a decision illuminating the position on the recovery of CFA success fees in Inheritance Act 1975 awards Unless a CFA-funded claimant can recover their success fee or a contribution thereto as part of their award, the success fee constitutes a debt which may undermine the purpose of their carefully tailored, needs-based …
Cases Referenced
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- Bullock v Denton (2020) unreported Leeds County Court HHJ Gosnell 15 April
- Clarke v Allen & anr [2019] EWHC 1193 and 1194 (Ch); WTLR(w) 2019-10
- Hirachand v Hirachand & anr [2021] EWCA Civ 1498; [2022] WTLR 185 CA
- Ilott v The Blue Cross & ors [2017] UKSC 17; [2017] WTLR 533 SC
- Lilleyman v Lilleyman (costs) [2012] EWHC 1056 (Ch); [2012] WTLR 1033 ChD
- Lilleyman v Lilleyman [2012] EWHC 821 (Ch); [2012] WTLR 1007 ChD
- Re H [2020] EWHC 1134 (Fam); [2020] WTLR 479 Fam D