NO YOU ARE NOT GOING TO RECOVER £25,000 FOR LEADING COUNSEL TO ATTEND A LOW LEVEL HEARING – NOT EVEN ON AN INDEMNITY BASIS: COURT OF APPEAL DECISION

In Timokhina v Timokhin [2019] EWCA Civ 1284 the Court of Appeal overturned an order that a mother pay counsel's fees of certain hearings. The judgment is interesting in that costs were disallowed (inter partes) as unreasonable even when the award was being made on an indemnity basis.

THE CASE The ...