Funding and Costs of Legal Aid in UK Law

  • Hunt v R M Douglas (Roofing) Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 03 November 1988
    ... ... raises an important issue with regard to costs - namely whether a litigant who has been awarded ... judgment'? And it appears to me, that the legal meaning of those words must be taken to be the ... ...
  • Hodgson v Imperial Tobacco Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 12 February 1998
    ... ... or any further order that the plaintiffs' legal representatives be responsible for any and all of the costs of the action other than under section 51(6) of ... legal advisers were contributing to the funding of the action and that the details of the CFAs ... ...
  • Brawley v Marczynski and Another
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 October 2002
    ... ... MORGAN Esq (instructed by the Policy and Legal Department, ... Legal Services Commission) for ... deciding that the defendants should pay the costs of the action brought by Mr Brawley in respect of ... the claimant's Community Legal Services Funding. (Order not part of approved judgment) ... ...
  • Holden & Company v Crown Prosecution Service (No. 2)
    • House of Lords
    • 26 May 1993
    ... ... of well defined circumstances, to order the costs incurred by a party to criminal proceedings to be ... amended by section 4(1) of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990, provided: ... , was the transfer of the burden of public funding of criminal and licensing proceedings from the ... ...
  • Nicky Herbert v H H Law Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 03 April 2019
    ... ... detailed assessment of solicitor and client costs pursuant to the Solicitors Act 1984 s.70 and ... set out in the document “Hampson Hughes Funding Agreements: What you need to know”. We will use ... out if you do not have suitable alternative legal funding to protect you against having to pay the ... ...
  • Roach v Home Office
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 25 February 2009
    ... ... ON APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT COSTS OFFICE Royal Courts of Justice ... Exceptional funding was obtained from the Legal Services Commission ... ...
  • Hawksford Trustees Jersey Ltd v Stella Global UK Ltd and another (No. 2)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 19 July 2012
    ... ... in clause 4.7 but specially excluding all costs incurred by the Company in connection with any of ... centres on the lack of any identifiable legal relationship between Mr Begg and Hawksford. Under ... "any additional liability incurred under a funding arrangement". This includes an arrangement where ... ...
  • R (Burkett) v Hammersmith and Fulham London BC
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 15 October 2004
    ... ... Tabachnik (instructed by the Respondents' Legal Services Division ) for the Respondents ... Sonia Burkett against the order for costs made by Newman J on 18 th June 2003 following ... Mrs Burkett, who has been in receipt of funding from the Legal Services Commission ("LSC") ... ...
  • Fattal and Another v Walbrook Trustees (Jersey) Ltd and Another
    • Chancery Division
    • 25 June 2009
    ... ... which remains to this day—is that (1) the legal estate in the whole of the Property was, and is, ... were disposed of by consent (except as to costs) by orders made by Hart J ... 30 ... in disproportionate enquiries into funding arrangements. The rule laid down by the House of ... ...
  • Evans v Clayhope Properties Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 18 November 1987
    ... ... and expenditure can be treated as "costs" (see below), no question of discretion arises ... Legal aid taxation ... ...
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