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Board of school entitled to usual order for costs in unsuccessful claim by pupil
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Supreme Court, having allowed an appeal and ruled in favour of a secondary school in a legal dispute concerning the expulsion of a student, affirming the school's decision, considers the issue of costs and determines that despite the student's minor status, there were no exceptional circumstances to depart from the rule that costs follow the event.
Secondary school - student expulsion - interlocutory injunction - judicial review - Education (Welfare) Act 2000, s. 29 appeal - Supreme Court - balance of convenience - costs - minor - systemic importance - Legal Service Regulation Act 2015 - successful litigant - mootness - 33rd Amendment of the Constitution Act 2013.
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