Christopher Stirling

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Talking Family Law - The Resolution Podcast · Enforcement of financial remedy orders · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

No.

So that that's the fundamental difficulty.

I mean, in theory, it applies well beyond bank accounts.

It could be money held to the account.

I mean, I've done it with auctioneers, where they were holding money to the account of something that'd been sold in a I think an auction house in Geneva had sold some money for somebody, and and that account could be the subject of a third party debt order.

And we'll come on to discuss its very exotic use in Blighton Brewster orders.

But that's something a bit different.

Well well, the first thing about cost order, and it's a really important thing, is in order to enforce it, it's got to be liquidated.

In other words, either the sum's got to be agreed or it's got to been assessed by the court.

And this is something that I would emphasize the family courts are very sympathetic towards summary assessment, more so than the civil courts.

And it's really, really important.

Because detailed assessment can take ages, it's expensive, and if you practice at the Central London Family Court,

You should be aware that for reasons that are entirely unknown, the Central London Family Court cannot farm out its detailed assessment to the Central London cost judges, much to the chagrin of the judges there.

And it means they have to do it themselves.

And without doing any disservice to the extremely competent judges at the Central Family Court, cost assessment is not their speciality.

So they hate detailed assessment.

And it takes forever.

So it is worth getting a summary assessment, even if your judge appears to take a meat cleaver to your entirely reasonable N two sixty, where you're only charging £50,000 for a 10-minute hearing.

Only.

Having that order liquidated for the purposes of enforcement is worth its weight in gold.

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