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Costs

10 August 2012
Issue: 7526 / Categories: Case law , Costs
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A Local Authority v A mother and others [2012] EWHC 1637 (Fam), [2012] All ER (D) 11 (Aug)

While a local authority should not be treated as a secondary funding authority for litigants who were not entitled to public funding, that did not prevent the court from making an order for costs where the circumstances of the individual case made it just.

The discretion to award costs was not limited to cases where there had been unreasonableness on the part of the authority.
 

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