Arches Court of Canterbury -In a matrimonial suit, the husband retained one counsel only, and the wife’s proctor, conceiving she could not claim the privilege of two, also retained one only, but for the hearing was induced to retain a second The costs thereof being allowed upon taxation, the proctor for the husband objected to the Registrar’s report.
Held that the ordinary. practice of the Court was to have two counsel on each side; that a wife was primai facie therefore entitled thereto, arid that the special circumstances of the present case dld not afford sufficiient ground for exception.
Citations:
[1853] EngR 1040, (1853) 1 Sp Ecc and Ad 117, (1853) 164 ER 68
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Ecclesiastical, Costs
Updated: 15 May 2022; Ref: scu.295026