The Law Reports (Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division)
[1969] P 1
[COURT OF APPEAL]
GOODAY
v.
GOODAY
1968 July 16
Willmer, Diplock and Widgery L.JJ.
Legal Aid
— Costs
— Divorce
— Legally-aided wife's petition unsuccessful
— Husband's application for costs
— Court's jurisdiction to award costs against impecunious wife
— Whether sum awarded “reasonable … having regard to all the circumstances”
—
Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 49), s. 50 (1)
[1]
—
Legal Aid and Advice Act, 1949 (12, 13 & 14 Geo. 6, c. 51), s. 2 (2) (e)
[2]
—
Legal Aid (General) Regulations, 1962 (S.I. 1962, No. 148), reg. 18.
Legal Aid
— Costs
— Order against assisted person
— Unsuccessful wife petitioner with £7 contribution
— Order to pay £200 towards husband's costs
— Whether “reasonable”
—
Legal Aid and Advice Act, 1949, s. 2 (2) (e).
Husband and Wife
— Divorce
— Costs
— Wife, order for costs against
— No ground for practice not to make order against unsuccessful wife petitioner
— Discretion of judge
—
Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925, s. 50 (1).
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Costs
— Appeal, Court of
— Jurisdiction
— Order made against wife in her unsuccessful petition for divorce
— Court's jurisdiction to reverse
— Jurisdiction to vary amount.