The WLR Daily case summaries
[2017] WLR (D) 117
Family Court
In re CZ (A Child) (Human Rights Claim: Costs)
[2017] EWFC 11
2017 Feb 8; 16
Cobb J
Children— Care proceedings— Costs— Local authority granted interim care order for removal of week-old baby from hospital— Claimant parents neither present nor represented at hearing— Claimants seeking declarations and damages for breach of human rights— Local authority conceding rights breached and offering to pay some costs and compensation — Whether claimants entitled to recover costs in full— Children Act 1989 (c 41), s 31— Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), s 8, Sch 1, Pt I, arts 6, 8— Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c 10), s 25— Civil Legal Aid (Statutory Charge) Regulations 2013 (SI 2013/503) regs 5, 9— Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1953) (Cmd 8969), arts 13, 41