The Weekly Law Reports
[2009] 1 WLR 2353
Supreme Court
*In re appeals by Governing Body of JFS and others
[2009] UKSC 1
2009 Oct 1;
14
Lord Hope of Craighead DPSC, Baroness Hale of Richmond, Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood JJSC
Legal aid— Availability— Appeal— Funded litigant successful in Court of Appeal— Unsuccessful litigants granted leave to appeal— Legal Services Commission refusing to fund costs of resisting appeal unless protective costs order made against appellants— Whether compelling reasons required to justify withdrawal of funding— Whether commission’s approach unreasonable— Whether unlawful— Whether protective costs order to be made— Whether funding to be continued without protective costs order—
Access to Justice Act 1999 (c 22), ss 8, 11