Index card In re H (Minors) (Abduction: Custody Rights) (No 2)

In re H (Minors) (Abduction: Custody Rights) (No 2)

Hearings

England & Wales

25 Jun 1992 [1992] 2 AC 303; [1992] 3 WLR 198; [1992] 3 All ER 380, HL(E)

Subject Matter

LEGAL AID — Costs — Jurisdiction to award — Defendant initially unassisted but subsequently obtaining legal aid — Plaintiff legally aided throughout — House of Lords making order for defendant's costs incurred while unassisted person to be paid out of legal aid fund — Order suspended to allow Legal Aid Board to object — Whether House of Lords making “order forthwith” — Whether jurisdiction to make order — Legal Aid Act 1988, s 18(1)(2) — Civil Legal Aid (General) Regulations 1989, regs 143, 147

[1992] 2 AC 303; [1992] 3 WLR 198

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