JG v The Lord Chancellor & Others [2014] EWCA Civ 656

Successful appeal concerning funding of an expert report in private children law proceedings. The LSC refused to fund the whole costs of an expert’s report notwithstanding that the judge at first instance had ordered that the costs be funded by the child (who was publicly funded) and had certified that it was a reasonable and necessary disbursement under the terms of her public funding certificate. Held that the cost of the report be funded by the child, the court considering it to be a reasonable and necessary disbursement to be incurred under the terms of her public funding certificate.