John Mehrzad obtains substantial costs order for CPS

04.02.2012

The long-running and high-profile saga in Boyd v CPS has finally concluded with John Mehrzad, who was instructed by Makbool Javaid and Ewan Keen (both Partners) of Simons Muirhead & Burton, successful in an application on behalf of the CPS for its very substantial costs to be payable by the Claimant, a former prosecutor, once assessed by the County Court. 

 As previously reported in Chambers News (see entry on 8.7.2011), the seemingly unprecedented aspect of this case was that, following a multi-day Full Hearing in June 2011, John persuaded the Newcastle ET to overturn findings of fact made by the independent, quasi-governmental Civil Service Appeal Board which had resulted in a maximum compensatory award being made to the Claimant by that body. 

As a result of the recent costs judgment, the Claimant may in effect be ordered to repay virtually all that CSAB award to the CPS by way of costs.