Weekly law digests

Costs

Campbell v Campbell [2018] EWCA Civ 80 [2018] All ER (D) 30 (Feb)

A foreign lawyer lacking a qualification in England and Wales could not be regarded as a ‘lawyer’ or as providing ‘legal services’ for the purposes of CPR 46.5(3)(b). Accordingly, the appellant, a litigant in person in whose favour a costs order had been made, could not recover for work undertaken by his foreign lawyer. The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, so held in dismissing the appellant’s appeal.

Environment

R (on the application of Bancoult No 3) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs [2018] UKSC 3 [2018] All ER (D) 49 (Feb)

In 2010, the respondent Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs had established a ‘no take’ marine protected area in the British Indian Overseas Territory, which had brought to an end all commercial fishing, including that carried on by Chagossians as owners and crew of Mauritian registered fishing vessels. The appellant, the chair of the Chagos Refugees Group, had appealed against the decision by the Court