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Periodical payments definition

What does Periodical payments mean? Regular maintenance paid at set intervals (usually monthly) by one spouse or civil partner (or former spouse/civil partner) to support the other and/or a child of the family. In family law this is commonly called a periodical payments order. England & Wales and Northern Ireland: Courts may order periodical payments under the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973/Matrimonial Causes (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 and the Civil Partnership Act 2004. For children, the court can order periodical payments (e.g. under Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989/Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995), but routine child maintenance is usually assessed and enforced by the Child...

Variable periodical payments orders in personal injury: criteria, drafting requirements, and variation procedure, with comparison to provisional damages

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Practice notes

Fixed or variable orders

The court can stipulate fixed adjustments to take place at set future dates without the need for a further order. It can also allow for changes to the level of payments to be revisited on a subsequent application. Only the second category is termed a variable order; with the first, it is the payments that alter, not the order itself. NOTE: The Explanatory Notes to the Ogden Tables give an illustration of when fixed adjustments may be suitable, for example where assumed future wage growth should be taken into account, or where residual earning capacity is expected to shift. Nothing alters that is directly pertinent to the variable order. A variable order may be granted when, at judgment, it is shown that the claimant might later suffer an additional serious illness or marked deterioration (for instance epilepsy or a syrinx) attributable to the injury, or, conversely, might experience a substantial improvement in their physical or psychological state. The possibility must be anticipated at the point of trial or compromise. Expert evidence may indicate that the combined impact of rehabilitation and/or the conclusion of proceedings should be reflected in any future variation considered upon application by the court as...

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Andrew Wilson

Andrew has more than 25 years’ experience of working in the fields of personal injury and occupational disease litigation, acting for both claimants and defendants. He trained at L Bingham & Co, gaining early experience in a number of important high profile claims involving the MIB. During the 1990s Andrew worked at Hextalls and then Kennedys, predominantly for defendants across a range of motor, employers’ liability and public liability matters many of which involved serious injuries or death. More recently, he has dealt with cases for claimants who have suffered serious injuries or occupational disease. He was a partner in a large specialist practice. He has provided seminars to solicitors and other legal professionals both for an external conference company and in house on the workings of the Civil Procedure Rules in the context of personal injury claims, amongst other...

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