The Weekly Law Reports
[1998] 2 WLR 849
[QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION]
REGINA
v.
LORD CHANCELLOR,
Ex parte
WITHAM
1997 March 5;
7
Rose L.J. and Laws J.
Statutory Instrument
— Validity
— Whether ultra vires
— Lord Chancellor by Order repealing provisions giving poor litigants exemption from or reduction of Supreme Court fees
— Applicant on income support unable to afford fees
— Whether constitutional right of access to court
— Whether removal of exemption from fees denial of access to court
— Whether unlawful
—
Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54), s. 130
—
Supreme Court Fees (Amendment) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996 No. 3191), art. 3