Legal aid

The claimant solicitors’ firm issued judicial review proceedings, challenging the defendant lord chancellor’s decision to reduce its claim for costs to nil in a case where work had been carried out for a client financially eligible for legal aid, although at the time the lord chancellor asserted that the firm had not conclusively established that to its satisfaction. The Administrative Court, in allowing the application, held that the lord chancellor’s decision had been based on the answer to the wrong question and would be quashed.