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Barriers to Public Interest Litigation - Costs

FAQs - Protective Costs Orders

Case Summaries

Cases summaries related to costs can be viewed by jurisdiction:-

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For further information on this area, here are the names of reports and journal articles which may be of interest. Where possible we’ve provided the full text of the documents.

Journal Articles

Journal Articles related to costs:-

  • McColgan, "Limiting the costs of litigation-protective costs orders in the Court of Appeal," Civil Justice Quarterly (2009)
  • Marcus, "Justice at all costs? The Aarhus Convention, Morgan and environmental public law," One Crown Office Row (2009)
  • Fordham QC & Boyd, "Rethinking Costs in judicial review" Blackstone Chambers (2009)
  • Zuckerman, "Protective costs orders- a growing costs-litigation industry," Civil Justice Quarterly (2009)
  • Maurici, "Key procedural developments in judicial review in 2008" Landmark Chambers (2008)
  • Fordham, "Public Interest intervention: a practitioner's perspective," Public Law (2007)
  • Patel & Grange, "Protective costs orders in judicial review," 39 Essex St (2007)
  • Clayton, "Public Interest Litigation, costs and the role of Legal Aid," Public Law (2006)
  • McIntyre, "The role of pre-emptive/protective costs orders in environmental judicial review," Irish Planning and Environmental Law Journal (2006)
  • Mulcahy, "Pre-emptive Costs Orders: Evolution and Potential in Irish Law," Irish Student Law Review (2006)
  • Stein & Beagent, "Case law analysis: R (Corner House Research) -v- the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry," Journal of Environmental Law (2005)
  • Chakrabarti, Stephens & Gallagher, “ Whose Cost the public interest?,” Public Law (2003)

Reports

Reports related to costs:-

  • PILA report: the costs barrier & protective costs orders View / Download (size: 770k , format: Adobe PDF)
  • Lord Justice Jackson, "Review of Civil Litigation Costs: Final Report" (December 2009) http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/
  • Report of the working group on access to environmental justice, "Ensuring access to environmental justice in England and Wales" (2008) http://www.unece.org/
  • Law Society of Ireland Law Reform Committee, "Enforcement of environmental law: the case for reform" (2008) http://www.lawsociety.ie/
  • Liberty and The Civil Liberties Trust, "Litigating the public interest: report of the working group on facilitating public interest litigation" (2006) http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/
  • Law Reform Commission Consultation Paper on Judicial Review Procedure (2003) http://www.lawreform.ie/