Sears Tooth (A Firm) v Payne Hicks Beach (A Firm) and Others: FD 24 Jan 1997

An agreement to deduct legal costs of proceedings from a divorce award was not champertous or unlawful.

Citations:

Gazette 05-Feb-1997, Times 24-Jan-1997, [1997] 2 FLR 116

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Cited by:

CitedWyatt v Vince SC 11-Mar-2015
Long delayed ancillary relief application proceeds
The parties had divorced some 22 years before, but no ancillary relief order had been made to satisfy the application outlined in the petition. The parties when together had lived in relative poverty, but H had subsequently become wealthy. W applied . .
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Legal Professions, Costs, Family

Updated: 09 July 2022; Ref: scu.89083