I’m helping a friend with limited English, who is in dispute with an unreasonable ex partner. He is the respondent and recently filed his response through his solicitor.
The other party is not cooperating with disclosure documents and they will soon be moving to subpoenas.
She went overseas 2 years ago and remarried and stopped paying the mortgage, he has maintained paying it out of fear of ruining his credit history and borrowing opportunity after settling this.
The next hearing is a directions hearing and the solicitor commented that he will provide a list of barristers for the directions hearing.
How necessary is it to engage a barrister for a directions hearing? Aren’t solicitors genuinely competent enough to run directions hearings?
My friend is seeking she repay him via the eventual settlement the funds he has covered paying her 50% of the mortgage. The solicitor also advised that the court may not do this because he now has the property 100% to himself and she may claim 50% of what it’s rental value is and claim he she should be paying her rent despite her abandoning everything.
Is this a likely scenario that could play out?
Thanks in advance
The other party is not cooperating with disclosure documents and they will soon be moving to subpoenas.
She went overseas 2 years ago and remarried and stopped paying the mortgage, he has maintained paying it out of fear of ruining his credit history and borrowing opportunity after settling this.
The next hearing is a directions hearing and the solicitor commented that he will provide a list of barristers for the directions hearing.
How necessary is it to engage a barrister for a directions hearing? Aren’t solicitors genuinely competent enough to run directions hearings?
My friend is seeking she repay him via the eventual settlement the funds he has covered paying her 50% of the mortgage. The solicitor also advised that the court may not do this because he now has the property 100% to himself and she may claim 50% of what it’s rental value is and claim he she should be paying her rent despite her abandoning everything.
Is this a likely scenario that could play out?
Thanks in advance