No order as to costs in moot judicial review of application for leave to remain

Asylum and immigration – judicial review – costs of legal proceedings – moot proceedings - substantive proceedings – challenging the decision refusing him leave to remain – Minister refused to process the application – Court refused to stay possible deportation - submissions in relation to proposal deport – Minister made a decision in favour of the applicant, and granted Stamp 4 permission for one year - procedural inappropriateness of seeking or worse still granting injunctions which prevent a decision from being made - agreed now that the case can be struck out - the issue before the court is one of costs – Minister seeking all his costs – applicant seeking a portion of his costs - issue of costs in moot proceedings - whether there is a causal nexus between the matter that has made the case moot and the proceedings themselves - only link with the proceedings is the negative one in that the Court refused to stop something happening that would have happened anyway - in the absence of such a nexus the default order in accordance with the Supreme Court jurisprudence is no order as to costs – no order as to costs –