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New Form EX50 Civil and Family Court Fees Leaflet
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Eagle eyed practitioners may have noticed that as from the 4 August 2014 there is a new HMCTS Civil and Family Court Fees Leaflet.
However this does not represent a complete overhaul of the court fees last updated with the introduction of the single family court on 22 April 2014 and there is not in fact a new Family fees order.
There are two new amendment orders in relation to civil fees which came into force on 4 August 2014: the Civil Proceedings Fees (Amendment No. 2) Order 2014; made on 10 July 2014 and laid before Parliament on 14 July 2014 and the Civil Proceedings Fees (Amendment No. 3) Order 2014; made on 1 August 2014 and laid before Parliament the same date.
The changes made to the fees and to the leaflet itself are minor and can be summarised as follows:
Forced marriage applications
A new section has been included to clarify the position as previously the HMCTS leaflet contained contradictory information from the Family Proceedings Fees Order 2008 (as amended by...
Read the full article here.
