HMSC court forms, any problems completing them? En

The Form H is not usually relevant when considering costs orders - it is more a case management tool.

The Form H is relatively straightforward in as much as the profit costs (professional fees of a solicitor), disbursements (court fees, valuation fees and any other fees other than..) and counsels (barrister's) fees are separate. All figures shown should be inclusive of VAT.

The first section of the form is for pre issue. These are the costs that are incurred before one of the parties issues the Form A application.

The second section is costs after issue of the Form A up to and including the FDR hearing (and any 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc. FDRs). This section will include the court fee if you are the applicant.

The pre and post issue sections are sub-divided for previous and current solicitors. This is based on the assumption that your second or subsequent solicitor is completing the form. If you are a litigant in person put the figures in the previous solicitor section.

Whenever you complete a Form H you should put the estimated costs that you will incur in attending the hearing for which the Form H is being prepared. Being litigant in person there will be no further costs unless you are using a barrister or solicitor on an agreed fee.

Finally, there are two columns for publicly funded (on the left) and indemnity (private) costs (on the right). You should complete the column on the right unless you have received public funding at any stage in which case post back here for guidance as you will need a mix of the two.

Charles

Confused2 referred to a "Divorce pack" from her divorce county court - was this locally produced or is it a national thing?

Please "make sticky" Charles' post on Form H?
Please can we have a Wikisection dedicated to the dreaded forms - also a simple timeline for the relevant forms would be great.
How about an online divorce diary - each stage, each form, NBs and pitfalls room for our own notes?

The only problem I have is on the place of marriage bit. I entered what it said on the form ie the register office in the district of ... in the county of ,,, but they sent it back saying not word for word same as cert
so do I put in the town hall of .. in the district of ... in the borough of .. and ignore their own advice form?

Hello Maggie

Wiki will be writing guides for court forms soon for now the aim is to identify those forms that cause the most problems.

Any others?

Dukey

maggie wrote:

Confused2 referred to a "Divorce pack" from her divorce county court - was this locally produced or is it a national thing?

Maggie, I don't know if the "pack" is national or local, fortunately I don't have experience elsewhere. All it was, was a simple envelope with the relevant forms (D8 Petition and D8A Statement of Arrangements, plus guidance leaflets D183 About Divorce, D184 I want to get a divorce and D185 Children and Divorce). Perhaps I overstated the benefits but I felt that such a simple idea helped clarify what I needed to do. An alternate pack was available if no children were involved.

Form A Application for Ancillary Relief might also have been included, as might leaflets EX50 and EX160A, I can't remember now. What I do remember was that only documents required at that stage were included, I was spared the likes of Forms D84, D80 and leaflet D186 until later.

P.S. "Her" is a he.

Any others?

D11... I think this is the one for enforcement of Consent Orders... we did our best and hope we got it right but it would have helped to have a guide, as the form is a very general one...