Index card Hanlon v The Law Society

Hearings

England & Wales

21 Jun 1979 [1981] AC 124; [1980] 2 WLR 756, Fam D (Reeve J)

04 Dec 1979 [1981] AC 124; [1980] 2 WLR 756; [1980] 1 All ER 763, CA (Lord Denning MR, Sir John Arnold P, and Donaldson LJ)

01 May 1980 [1981] AC 124; [1980] 2 WLR 756; [1980] 2 All ER 199, HL(E) (Lord Edmund-Davies, Lord Simon of Glaisdale, Lord Fraser of Tullybelton, Lord Scarman and Lord Lowry)

Subject Matter

LAW REFORM — Whether necessary — Legal aid — Costs — Divorce — Property adjustment order following divorce — Charge on property recovered or preserved for benefit of legal aid fund — Whether matrimonial home as sole capital asset suitable subject for charge

[1981] AC 124; [1980] 2 WLR 756

LEGAL AID — Costs — Charge on property — Divorce — Property adjustment order — House owned by husband — Legally aided wife claiming transfer — Husband disputing claim — Court ordering transfer to wife — Single legal aid certificate covering divorce proceedings and property adjustment proceedings — Whether legal aid fund entitled to charge on house — Whether house “property … recovered or preserved” — Whether recovered or preserved “in the proceedings” — Whether discretion in Law Society to postpone enforcement of charge or accept charge on substitute security — Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, s 24(1)(a) — Legal Aid Act 1974, s 9(6) — Legal Aid (General) Regulations 1971 (as amended by Legal Aid (General) (Amendment No 2) Regulations 1976, reg 2 and Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) Regulations 1977, reg 7), reg 18(10)(c)(i)

[1981] AC 124; [1980] 2 WLR 756

Appellate History

Hanlon v The Law Society [1981] AC 124; [1980] 2 WLR 756, Fam D

Decision of Reeve J affirmed

Hanlon v The Law Society [1981] AC 124; [1980] 2 WLR 756; [1980] 1 All ER 763, CA

Decision of the Court of Appeal affirmed

Hanlon v The Law Society [1981] AC 124; [1980] 2 WLR 756; [1980] 2 All ER 199, HL(E)