Index card Lord Chancellor v Ross

Lord Chancellor v Ross

Hearings

England & Wales

05 Nov 2021 [2021] EWHC 2961 (QB); [2022] 1 WLR 1375; [2021] WLR(D) 562, QBD (Lambert J)

Subject Matter

CRIME — Costs — Power to award — Legally-aided defendant found unfit to stand trial in criminal proceedings — Court appointing defendant’s legal representative for purposes of proceedings to determine whether defendant did acts or made omissions charged as offence — Whether representative’s costs to be ordered out of central funds or paid via advocates’ graduated fee scheme — Whether costs incurred in “criminal proceedings” — Criminal Procedure (Insanity) Act 1964 (c 84), s 4A — Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c 10), s 14 — Criminal Legal Aid (Remuneration) Regulations 2013 (SI 2013/435), Sch 1, para 31

[2021] EWHC 2961 (QB); [2022] 1 WLR 1375; [2021] WLR(D) 562, QBD

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