Commentary on Sections Schedule 27 - Minor and consequential amendments Paragraphs 137 and 138 - Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41)
1029.Paragraph 137 amends section 10 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 to insert a reference to proceedings under Schedule 6 to the Civil Partnership Act (financial relief in the magistrates’ court) to the list of proceedings defined as family proceedings in magistrates’ courts. This amendment is consequential upon the classification of proceedings arising from civil partnerships as family proceedings and will facilitate the handling of these proceedings in the magistrates’ court.
1030.Paragraph 138 amends Section 58A of the 1990 Act to add references to proceedings for dissolution, nullity and separation of civil partners, and proceedings for financial relief under Schedules 5, 6 and 7 to the Civil Partnership Act to the list of proceedings for which conditional fee agreements are not permissible.