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Legal Aid - From: 1980 To: 1984
This page lists 2 cases, and was prepared on 02 April 2018.
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 Hanlon v The Law Society; HL 1981 - [1981] AC 124; [1980] 2 WLR 756; [1980] 2 All ER 199
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Re A Debtor Times, 19 February 1981
9 Feb 1981
CA
Templeman LJ
Legal Aid
The husband opposed assisted proceedings brought by his wife, in which he was ordered to pay a sum of costs. He did not pay, and the Law Society brought proceedings against him for their recovery. He sought to set-off against that claim a debt allegedly owed to him by his wife. Held: The court referred to the machinery for the collection and administration of a costs order in favour of an assisted person: "[T]his means that the assisted person never obtains the slightest entitlement as beneficiary to a single penny payable by virtue of an order in his favour for costs . . . Any order for costs is only made in the name of the assisted person for the purposes of identification and taxation….No set-off can arise because the money never belongs to the assisted person; it belongs to the Legal Aid Fund."
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