References: Independent 10-Jun-1993, Times 28-May-1993, [1994] 1 AC 22, [1993] 2 All ER 769
The Court of Appeal Civil Division has no power to make an award of costs out of central funds. The court referred to: ‘the special constitutional convention which jealously safeguards the exclusive control exercised by Parliament over the levying and the expenditure of the public revenue’.