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When your husband or wife applies for divorce: how to respond, agree or disagree, start your own proceedings, court hearing, apply for a decree absolute.
How to get a legal or judicial separation if you want to separate from your partner without divorcing them.
Fees for barristers who help vulnerable witnesses and victims to pre-record a cross examination will rise to £1,000, the government announced today (25 October 2023).
This consultation seeks views on a number of changes to the ‘Help with Fees’ remission scheme for courts and tribunal fees.
A report summarising the findings of a qualitative study on the factors influencing organisations’ decisions to bring cases to the civil and family courts.
Guidance on the different types of compensation within the justice system.
A consultation about criminal legal aid and court appointees.
Search for unclaimed money in a Court Funds Office account - find account, get information and claim
Details of the Ministry of Justice’s review of criminal legal aid, announced in December 2018.
Your responsibilities as litigation friend of a child with money in a Court Funds Office account - update details, statements, tax vouchers, payments
Your rights when bailiffs visit your home - entering your home, debts, complaining about private bailiffs, court bailiffs, civilian enforcement officers, certificated enforcement agents. Includes information from the withdrawn EX345 guidance.
Criminal legal aid solicitors working in police stations and youth courts will receive a pay increase to reflect the importance and complexity of their work, the Lord Chancellor has announced today (29 January 2024).
Government response on enhanced fees for possession claims and general applications in civil proceedings, and further fee proposals for consultation.
Make a payment to the Court Funds Office - pay a settlement, deposit money as part of a defence of tender before claim or repay an overpayment
How to work out splitting up money, property and possessions when you divorce or dissolve a civil partnership - including mediation.
This consultation sets out proposals for reform of the criminal legal aid fee schemes which fall under Crime Lower.
SSRB report on fees for non-legal members of tribunals.
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