Amy Scollan discusses the arbitrating costs of provision applications in the Financial Remedies Journal
Amy’s article was published in the Financial Remedies Journal, 5 December 2024, and can be seen here.
Amy Scollan, Mariko Wilson and James Pirrie (Family Law in Partnership) explore the challenges concerning costs provision applications, legal funding between parties and delays in court processes.
Arbitrating Costs Provision Applications
There have been few seismic changes in family law that reshaped everything. Much as we would love suddenly to have a new landscape for our professional work, most of us can only hope to find small solutions that work for some small corner of one field. However, bit by bit this may all contribute to an evolving and improving climate in which families change and start their new chapters. Here we hope is one more such.
One feature in that vista is that separating partners generally need advice and support to reach good agreements and oftentimes, one party has access to the funds for advice and the other does not. In the absence of agreement and co-operation an intervention will be needed, without which there cannot be fairness in the litigation or negotiations, in other words a level playing field.
Read the full article here: Arbitrating Costs Provision Applications (Financial Remedies Journal)
