The Court ordered costs against an unsuccessful self-represented applicant in Class 4 proceedings where the summons identified no legal grounds and the interlocutory injunction was refused. The Court confirmed that bare assertions of acting in the public interest, without supporting evidence and where the applicant was a neighbouring landowner with no demonstrated wider environmental or community concern, are insufficient to engage the r 4.2(1) LEC Rules exception to the usual costs order. The Court also confirmed that r 3.7(2) LEC Rules (restricting costs orders unless fair and reasonable) applies only to Class 1, 2 and 3 proceedings, not Class 4 judicial review proceedings, and that impecuniosity alone does not preclude a costs order.
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