{"id":127,"date":"2004-09-30T16:20:52","date_gmt":"2004-09-30T16:20:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-09-30T16:20:52","modified_gmt":"2004-09-30T16:20:52","slug":"law-reform-influences-on-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"Law Reform &#8211; influences on Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Costs in Criminal Cases (General) Regulations 1986<\/strong> which enables a the court to make a third party costs order,&nbsp;was largely inspired by the abandonment, following a Sunday Mirror article, of the trial in the &#8220;Leeds Footballers&#8221; case(R v Woodgate &amp; others), wasting costs of about \u00a31million. Before this amendment the courts only had power to make wasted costs orders against the legal or other representative of a party to the proceedings where &#8220;wasted costs&#8221; have been incurred by any party to the proceedings as a result of any improper, unreasonable or negligent act or omission on the part of the legal representative or his employee. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Costs in Criminal Cases (General) Regulations 1986 which enables a the court to make a third party costs order,&nbsp;was largely inspired by the abandonment, following a Sunday Mirror article, of the trial in the &#8220;Leeds Footballers&#8221; case(R v Woodgate &amp; others), wasting costs of about \u00a31million. Before this amendment the courts only had power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}