(Court of Appeal, Laws, Briggs, Burnett LJJ, 20 May 2016)
[The judicially approved judgment and accompanying headnote has now published in Family Law Reports
[2016] 2 FLR 392]
Costs – Legal aid – s 10, Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 - Exceptional case funding scheme – Legality
Court of Appeal allows appeal from determination that Exceptional Case Funding Scheme under LASPO 2012 is unlawful.
Case No: C1/2015/2576
Neutral Citation Number: [2016] EWCA Civ 464
IN THE COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION)
ON APPEAL FROM THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION
ADMINISTRATIVE COURT – CO/17381/2013
MR JUSTICE COLLINS
Royal Courts of Justice
Strand
London
WC2A 2LL
Date: 20/05/2016
Before:
LORD JUSTICE LAWS
LORD JUSTICE BRIGGS
and
LORD JUSTICE BURNETT
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Between:
(1) The Director of Legal Aid Casework
(2) The Lord Chancellor
Appellants
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IS (a protected party, by his litigation friend the Official Solicitor)
Respondent
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Mr M Chamberlain QC, Ms C McGahey QC and Mr M Birdling (instructed by The Treasury Solicitor) for the The Appellants
Mr R Hermer QC and Mr C Buttler (instructed by The Public Law Project) for the The Respondent
Hearing dates: 21 & 22 March 2016
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Judgment
