Tick-box Legal Aid Agency response to funding authority request: not reason enough

In Re J (A Child: Care Proceedings: Apportionment of Experts' fees) [2017] EWFC B49 HHJ Bellamy does not, unfortunately, give the required citation certificate for a judgment below the High Court (Practice Direction of 9 April 2001: Citation of  Authorities Lord Woolf LCJ [2001] 2 All ER 510, para 6.1): that a decision ‘purports to establish a new principle or to extend the present law’. However, from such a senior and well-respected circuit judge, with particular expertise in legal aid and public funding for children cases, his judgment in the case merits respect.