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30 January 2023
Categories: Legal News , Procedure & practice
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LNB NEWS: Facility for urgent applications in Form A added to MyHMCTS

HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has added the ability for solicitors to flag a financial application made in Form A via the MyHMCTS contested financial remedies application portal as urgent. 

Lexis®Library update: The completion of a reason box is mandatory alongside this marker. Judicial guidance is that such applications should be rare, with possible examples including where a spousal periodical payments order is to expire, so that in a few cases the applicant is permitted to apply to extend the order, but has to do so before the expiry date and files a Form A for variation at the last minute. An additional reason may be where an applicant seeks an urgent freezing order at the start of the process, which requires an application for a divorce or dissolution and an application in Form A to be issued urgently.

This content was first published by LNB News / Lexis®Library, a LexisNexis® company, on 27 January 2023 and is published with permission. Further information can be found at: www.lexisnexis.co.uk.

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