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United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024

Section 38: Additional expenses

137.Where a court or tribunal considers that a party to proceedings has incurred additional expense as a result of an intervention by the Lord Advocate, the Commissioner for Children and Young People in Scotland or the Scottish Commission for Human Rights under section 25(8), 27(2) or 34(2), the court or tribunal may award the whole or part of those expenses to the party who incurred them (whatever the decision on the compatibility question).

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