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In most cases a costs order made by a judge will be for one of the parties to the dispute to pay costs to another party. But very occasionally a costs order can be made against someone who is not a party to the case at all.

This is very rare. Most of the time it will be a situation where the litigation is effectively being conducted by somebody who is not actually a party to the case, i.e., somebody who is pulling the strings of one of the litigants. In that sort of situation the string puller may well be ordered to pay costs if the judge is asked to do so.

However, if a case is simply being funded by somebody else for purely charitable motives and they are not really pulling any strings or getting any benefit from it they would generally not be likely to be ordered to pay any costs. Judges like to encourage people to help out like that. There are however no hard and fast rules about this, it is entirely in the discretion of the judge.

These orders are very rare and remember that your lawyer acts only for you, so if you are getting somebody else to pay towards your legal fees you might care to suggest that the payer should get their own legal advice about it from a separate source.