View source for LB Redbridge v G (No 6) (2015) EWCA Civ 446, (2015) MHLO 40

The Official Solicitor unsuccessfully appealed against an order that Associated Newspapers Limited should pay (only) 30% of his costs. (1) The primary ground of appeal - that the COP Rules did not apply - was described by the Court of Appeal as "simply a device to suggest that the costs presumption should be reversed". (2) The alternative ground was that if the COP Rules did apply then the judge had erred in the exercise of his discretion in the proportionate costs order that he made. In relation to this the Court of Appeal held that (a) given that inaccurate letters from the OS (stating that that ANL were prevented from visiting G) had triggered ANL's application, and that the OS had not understood the public importance of the media's general role, a proportionate costs order was unsurprising; and (b) multiple representation where there is no significant difference between the arguments of parties on an application is to be discouraged by a limitation in costs.

==Related judgments==
{{related judgments|LB Redbridge v G (2014) EWHC 485 (COP), (2014) MHLO 13}}

==39 Essex Chambers==
{{mcln|June 2015|.*discretion and the CPR.*}}<!--avoid comma-->

==Citations==
On Bailii as: Re G (An Adult)

==External link==
{{#bailii:(2015) EWCA Civ 446}}

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