INTERIM PAYMENTS, EVIDENCE AND THE BURDEN OF PROOF: OBSERVATIONS FROM THE HIGH COURT
In Sellar-Elliot -v- Howling [2016] EWHC 443 (QB) Mr Justice Sweeney considered some important issues in relation to interim payments. The case is somewhat unusual in that the judgment is one that refuses permission to appeal. However the judge recognised…
REPRESENTATION IN CIVIL COMMITTAL PROCEEDING: ANOTHER CASE
Shortly after the previous post about legal aid in committal proceedings the decision in Watson -v- Holman [2016] EW Misc B5 was placed on Bailli. The case involved committal applications for failure to comply with an order to remove a…
LEGAL AID IN CONTEMPT PROCEEDINGS
In an earlier post I set out the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Brown -v- London Borough of Haringey [2015] EWCA Civ 483 about the availability of legal aid in committal proceedings. This included the passage ” The question…
