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Legal Aid - From: 1996 To: 1996
This page lists 11 cases, and was prepared on 02 April 2018.
Turner v Plasplugs Ltd Independent, 27 February 1996; Times, 01 February 1996
1 Feb 1996
CA
Legal Aid, Costs
A party is not protected against a costs order when continuing an action beyond a limitation on the Legal Aid certificate.
Legal Aid Act 1988 17
Regina v Haq; Regina v Saleem Times, 28 February 1996
28 Feb 1996
CA
Legal Aid
Expenses only awarded after solicitor failed to follow Judge's refusal to extend order.
Regina v Legal Aid Board Ex Parte Donn and Co (A Firm) Times, 18 March 1996
18 Mar 1996
QBD
Legal Aid
Legal Aid Board's decisions on grant of contract is judicially reviewable.
Circuit Systems Ltd (In Liquidation) and Another v Zuken Redac (Uk) Ltd Gazette, 01 May 1996; Times, 05 April 1996
5 Apr 1996
CA
Lord Justice Staughton, Lord Justice Simon Brown and Lord Justice Thorpe
Litigation Practice, Legal Aid
The assignment of a debt by a company in liquidation to a significant shareholder, in order to allow him to make an application for legal aid, and to avoid having to give security for costs and to allow the action to proceed was not unlawful, but the Legal Aid Board should be careful in supporting such contrived litigation.
Law of Property Act 1925 136(1)
1 Cites
1 Citers
Ex Parte Bold Gazette, 17 July 1996; Times, 15 July 1996
15 Jul 1996
CA
Legal Aid, Magistrates
Legal Aid was properly unavailable for community charge default proceedings. No criminal charge was involved.
Legal Aid Act 1988 Part V
Regina v Legal Aid Board ex parte Graham Dobson and Co (a Firm); Admn 7-Oct-1996 - Gazette, 30 October 1996; Times, 09 October 1996; [1996] EWHC Admin 87
Regina v Egan Times, 14 October 1996; [1996] EWCA Crim 973
8 Oct 1996
CACD
Legal Aid
An appeal against a finding of fact that a defendant was unfit to plead was not itself not a criminal proceeding.
Legal Aid Act 1988 21
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Regina v London Legal Aid Area Office Committee ex parte E [1996] EWCA Civ 831
30 Oct 1996
CA
Legal Aid
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In Re O (A Minor) (Costs:Liability of Legal Aid Board); orse Re O (A Minor) (Legal Aid Costs) Times, 25 November 1996; [1996] EWCA Civ 936; [1997] 1 FCR 159
25 Nov 1996
CA
Legal Aid, Children
Grandparents should have conceded at an early stage in the Court of Appeal that an order made by the judge in proceedings relating to their grandchild had been made without jurisdiction. Held: The court considered the procedures for applying for costs for an unassisted party in children proceedings.
Legal Aid Act 1988
1 Citers
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Philcox v Civil Aviation Authority [1996] EWCA Civ 1117
5 Dec 1996
CA
Staughton LJ, Millett LJ, Ward LJ
Legal Aid, Costs
1 Cites
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Nigel John Vanderesteen (Executors of the Estate of Doris Lily Maginnes Deceased) (the Legal Aid Board) v Anthony J Agius Peter Healey [1996] EWCA Civ 1212
13 Dec 1996
CA
Legal Aid
[ Bailii ]