R (JG) v Lord Chancellor

Subject Matter

CHILDREN — Care proceedings — Expert evidence — Child seeking to adduce expert evidence — Mother and father having insufficient means to contribute to costs of expert — Judge ordering expert’s costs to be funded entirely by child’s public funding certificate — Whether order breaching statutory requirement not make order departing from principles on which the discretion of court normally exercised merely by reason that one party publicly funded — Access to Justice Act 1999, s 22(4)

[2014] WLR (D) 235

Cases Cited

Cases cited in: R (JG) v Lord Chancellor [2014] EWCA Civ 656; [2014] 2 FLR 1218; [2014] WLR (D) 235, CA

A Local Authority v DS [2012] EWHC 1442

Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council v S and The Legal Services Commission [2004] EWHC 2529 (Fam); [2005] 1 FLR 751, Fam D

Ex Parte Bruce 6 PD 16, PDA

H v Cambridgeshire County Council [1996] 2 FLR 566, Fam D

In re D (Minors) (Adoption Reports: Confidentiality) [1996] AC 593; [1995] 3 WLR 483; [1995] 4 All ER 385; 94 LGR 609; [1995] 2 FLR 687, HL(E)

In re H-L (A Child) (Care Proceedings: Expert Evidence) [2013] EWCA Civ 655; [2014] 1 WLR 1160; [2013] 2 FLR 1434; [2013] CN 883, CA

In re TG (A Child) (Care Proceedings: Case Management: Expert Evidence) [2013] EWCA Civ 5; [2013] 1 FLR 1250; [2013] CN 103, CA

JG (A Child) v Legal Services Commission [2013] EWHC 804 (Admin); [2013] 2 FLR 1174, QBD

Lambeth London Borough Council v S, C, V and J (By His Guardian); Legal Services Commission Intervening [2005] EWHC 776 (Fam); [2005] 2 FLR 1171, Fam D

Muscat v Malta (2012) Application no. 24197

Cases citing

Cases citing: R (JG) v Lord Chancellor [2014] EWCA Civ 656; [2014] 2 FLR 1218; [2014] WLR (D) 235, CA

A Local Authority v L [2023] EWFC 7, Fam Ct

In re Z (A Child) (Lord Chancellor intervening) [2017] EWCA Civ 157; [2017] 1 WLR 4255; [2018] 1 FLR 956; [2017] WLR (D) 221, CA

MG v JF [2015] EWHC 564 (Fam); [2016] FLR 424; [2015] CN 466, Fam D

Q v Q (No 2) [2014] EWFC 31; [2015] 1 WLR 2040; [2015] 3 All ER 759; [2014] WLR (D) 372, Fam Ct

Re AB [2014] EWFC 2758, Fam D

ZN (Afghanistan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2018] EWCA Civ 1059, CA