The applicant sought an order requiring the Coroner to provide a digitised recording of his summing up in an inquest regarding deaths at its facility at Porton.
Held: It should not be necessary for the claimant to set out just precisely which part of the summing up was of concern, provided the other party knew what were the relevant allegations. Since the Coroner, if he acted properly and reasonably, would be indemnified by his local authority, he would not be entitled to a protective costs order.
There was ‘no reason in principle why a protective costs order should not in an appropriate case extend to protect the position of a defendant’, but such an order would be ‘unusual and no doubt exceedingly rare’.
Judges:
Collins J
Citations:
Times 05-May-2005, [2005] EWHC 889 (Admin), [2006] 1 WLR 134
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – London Borough of Camden v The Parking Adjudicator and Others Admn 18-Feb-2011
The council appealed after parking adjudicators allowed four appeals where the council had imposed a surcharge on the payment of civil parking penalties where payment was made by credit card. . .
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Coroners, Costs
Updated: 07 February 2022; Ref: scu.224881
