The Court of Appeal confirmed that where an amendment to grounds of appeal generates costs thrown away, those costs are properly ordered against the next friend rather than the person under disability, following established authority that a next friend is liable for all costs incurred in proceedings brought on behalf of a person under a disability. The next friend retains a right of indemnity from the plaintiff or any fund to which the plaintiff is beneficially entitled if the next friend has acted properly.
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