FRJ stage

Legal Services Payment Orders

PM v RM [2025] EWFC 11

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2025/11 Mr Justin Warshaw KC sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge. Application for maintenance pending suit, a legal services payment order and an injunction in a high value financial remedy case. Facts W (45) and H (68) began cohabiting in 2015, moved

MB v CD [2024] EWHC 751 (Fam)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2024/751 Judd J. This case concerned an application by the mother for a legal services payment order (LSPO) in respect of both financial remedy and Children Act 1989 proceedings. The mother sought an LSPO amounting to £143,499 excluding this day’s

SM v BA (Legal Services Payment Order) [2025] EWFC 7

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2025/7 Nicholas Allen KC sitting as a deputy High Court judge. Facts Application for a legal services payment order within high net worth financial remedy proceedings. W’s LSPO application was for H to meet the costs of £241,269 in unpaid invoices

HA v EN [2025] EWHC 48 (Fam)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2025/48 Deputy High Court Judge Richard Todd KC. Application by W for maintenance pending suit (MPS) and a legal services payment order (LSPO) in protracted financial remedy proceedings. Background W, aged 40 and born in Russia, had been a British citizen since

KV v KV [2024] EWFC 165

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/165 Peel J. Application by W for (i) Maintenance Pending Suit (MPS) pursuant to s 22 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 and (ii) a Legal Services Payment Order (LSPO) pursuant to s 22ZA of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973. The parties began

Abigail Laura Williams v Andrew John Williams [2024] EWFC 275

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/275 Final order of Moor J in financial remedy proceedings involving a husband who had continually breached court orders, failed to attend hearings, and provided unreliable and ‘demonstrably untrue’ evidence. Background H (56) and W (59) married in 1994 and separated in 2022,

RG v TA (Appeal: Legal Services Funding Order: Schedule 1 Children Act 1989) [2023] EWHC 3155 (Fam)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2023/3155 Roberts J. Appeal from HHJ Ellis who had refused F’s application for a legal services payment order of £125,000 in relation to his s 8 and Schedule 1 applications. F’s Sch 1 application based on significant disparity of