A revised and fully updated guide to the law, precedents and practice of costs and funding in all family proceedings.

Concise but comprehensive, this second edition provides a clear exposition of the three different regimes for family costs: no order; the clean sheet; and costs follow the event. It also covers arbitration costs, public funding, wasted costs, and any other costs issue that can arise.

The Second Edition covers:
Changes to public funding and the treatment of awards of damages
Changes to enforcement procedures with the introduction of Parts 39 and 40 of the Family Procedure Rules 2010
An update to relevant case law

Key legislation covered includes:
Children Act 1989
Matrimonial Causes Act 1973
Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012
Senior Courts Act 1981
Family Procedure Rules 2010
Civil Procedure Rules 1998

Costs in Family Proceedings provides answers to all your costs questions. The early chapters address the scope for orders for costs between parties, while the later chapters provide coverage of: cost allowances, wasted costs, costs assessment (including indemnity costs), enforcement of costs orders, and the full range of other costs issues which may arise in family proceedings.

As the only book of its kind available, this is an essential title for all family law solicitors, barristers, judiciary and academics, as well as costs draftsmen.

'.magisterial. Our library here will stock this book. Family practitioners should.expect that all family judges will want to work from it.'
Lord Wilson (from the Foreword to first edition)

This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Family Law online service.

Francis Wilkinson is a barrister practising from Field Court Chambers. He has wide experience in all aspects of family law, from child support to trusts of land, from financial remedies on divorce to forced marriage.
Sara Hunton is also a barrister practising from Field Court Chambers in family and civil with a specialism in all areas of family law. She has written numerous articles on the subject of costs in family proceedings and contributed to the family costs chapter in 'Costs Law: A Practitioner's Guide' published by ARK Group in association with the Solicitors Journal in June 2016.