New case alert: G (An Adult) [2015] EWCA Civ 446

In brief: Appeal by the Official Solicitor acting for the vulnerable adult against a proportionate costs order made against a newspaper where the President held that the Court of Protection Rules applied rather than the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 (where the general rule is that the unsuccessful party will be ordered to pay the costs of the successful party). Appeal dismissed.

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