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R V A BARRISTER SUB NOM IN RE A BARRISTER (WASTED COSTS ORDER) (NO.9 OF 1999) (2000)

PUBLISHED April 4, 2000
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A mistake as to a defendant's antecedents which resulted in a trial being wrongfully abandoned was a mistake which any other reasonably well informed or competent barrister could have made. Accordingly, the barrister's appeal against a wasted costs order was successful.

CA (Crim Div) (Clarke LJ, Kay J, Judge Dyer)

04/04/2000

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