Moses-Taiga v Taiga [2005] EWCA Civ 1013

Maintenance pending suit: Reasonable and required?

Andrew Smith provides a guide to the key principles to be applied on an application for maintenance pending suit and procedural points Maintenance pending suit will often not be reflective of longer term periodical payments and so it isn’t particularly necessary to go into longer term need for expenditure, especially that which is needed post-financial …

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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 …

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Legal Costs: Brave new world?

David Lister looks at a recent Schedule 1 decision and compares and contrasts A v A costs allowances with the new legal services orders ‘A “costs allowance” is not a “costs order”, and so falls outside the provisions of the FPR 2010 that there will generally be no order as to costs.’ In the Schedule …

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Case: Moses-Taiga v Taiga [2005] EWCA Civ 1013

Maintenance pending suit: Reasonable and required?

Costs: A marriage of necessity?

Legal Costs: Brave new world?