Criminal costs
The erosion of costs recovery in criminal cases could have profound effects, even to the extent of innocent parties pleading guilty to avoid substantial legal bills. Mark Skinner and Luke Blackburn detail developments.
Following the publication of a Ministry of Justice consultation paper in June 2009, we are on the cusp of a very significant change to the criminal costs regime. Awards of costs from central funds in
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