Glossary | Winston Solicitors

  • A wall owned jointly with a neighbour and repairable at shared expense.

  • Enabling a splitting up of pension rights in a different way to a pension share order and means that a portion of the pension is earmarked to go to the other party usually on retirement.

  • A type of financial order made by the court which shares your pension fund.

  • The person who issues divorce proceedings, now known as the Applicant.

  • Violence to another person which directly results in bodily injury.

  • Being physically unable to do something.

  • Approval by the local authority to the building or change of use of a property or extension to an existing property.

  • The formal documents that set out each side’s case. For example, your claim form (ET1) and the other party’s response (ET3) and any additional information or further particulars.

  • A reference allocated by the police to an individual crime.

  • A contract entered into following marriage or civil partnership to regulate division of money and assets in the event of a later separation or divorce.

  • The document to be signed by somebody to appoint another to act as their attorney.

  • A contract entered into in contemplation of marriage or civil partnership, usually to regulate division of money and assets in the event of later separation or divorce/dissolution.

  • In effect, mini hearings held at the employment tribunal.

    They are as formal as a final hearing and all necessary documents and witness statements must be disclosed before the hearing takes place. It is also important that all witnesses are in attendance.

    Often held to:

    • decide the preliminary issues in a case;
    • decide whether the claim or response should be struck out;
    • decide questions of entitlement to bring or defend a claim or decide if either party’s case has no reasonable prospect of success.

  • A road maintained by property owners rather than by the local authority. The property owners need to have rights over it as it is not necessarily a public access.

  • The process of dealing with the estate of someone who has died.

  • The Court which grants executors and administrators the right to administer deceased people’s estates, and also hears cases where estates are in dispute (contentious probate).

  • An Order of the Court preventing you from doing something in relation to a child e.g. taking a child abroad.

  • Evidence, or argument establishing fact.