HB v A Local Authority and Anor (Wardship – Costs Funding Order) [2017] EWHC 524 (Fam)

Judgment of MacDonald J determining whether the High Court has power, under its inherent jurisdiction, to make a costs funding order against a local authority requiring it to fund legal advice and representation for a parent in wardship proceedings brought by the local authority where that parent had lawfully been refused legal aid.