The Weekly Law Reports
[2018] 1 WLR 5912
Family Division
*H (A Minor) v Northamptonshire County Council
[2017] EWHC 282 (Fam)
2017 Jan 17,
18;
Feb 17
Feb 17
Keehan J
Costs— Discretion of court— Application against non-party— Local authority accepting liability for breach of child’s human rights arising in and before care proceedings— Legal Aid Agency’s delay in informing parties and court regarding extent to which it would enforce statutory charge against damages recovered in human rights claim— Whether power to make non-party costs order against Lord Chancellor— Whether application of statutory charge relevant in considering quantum and/or consequential costs orders— Whether non-party costs order to be made— Guidance on claims for breach of human rights in care proceedings—
Senior Courts Act 1981 (c 54) (as amended by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c 41), s 4(1), Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c 22), ss 17, 61(3), Sch 9, para 29(a), Sch 10, para 61 and Access to Justice Act 1999, s 31), s 51[1]
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Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c 10), ss 25, 26[2]
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CPR
r 46.2
[3]
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Civil Legal Aid (Costs) Regulations 2013 (SI 2013/611), reg 9[4]