[2009] EWHC 558 (Admin)

In determining whether it was appropriate to make a defendant's costs order under the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 s.16(1) a court could not refuse to grant such an order simply because a defendant had by his own conduct brought suspicion on himself. Where a court refused to make such an order it was required to state its reasons in open court at a date contemporaneous with its decision.

DC (Goldring LJ, Sweeney J)

04/03/2009