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Beware the cost of “inadequate oversight”
Cabo Concepts Ltd v MGA Entertainment (UK) Ltd [2021], concerns a claim for damages arising from MGA’s alleged breach of competition law and unjustified threats of patent infringement. Three weeks before the trial of the action, the Defendant advised the court that some 85,000 documents had…
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The Role of Specialist Costs Counsel in Judgments
In the matter of Evelyn Horne v Prescot (No. 1) Ltd – [2019] EWHC 1322 (QB), Jamie Carpenter (Claimant/Respondent) was pitched against Benjamin Williams QC (Respondent/Claimant) in a matter before Mr Justice Nichol on 7 May 2019 (judgment 24 May 2019). The issue An appeal…
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Late acceptance of Part 36: A lesson to be learned
Late acceptance of Part 36: A lesson to be learned for Claimants and Defendants alike. Michelle Walton of Victoria Square Chambers reports: http://www.victoriasquarechambers.co.uk/late-acceptance-of-part-36-a-lesson-to-be-learned/
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Part 36 indemnity costs trumps fixed costs rules the Court of Appeal
Two low level RTA claims, relating to separate Claimants (Broadhurst and Taylor), were heard together on appeal after opposite decisions were made by judges on whether to equate indemnity costs with fixed costs. The Master of the Rolls, Lord Dyson said that assessed costs should…
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Harmans Costs Brief – November 2015
It’s the last Costs Brief of 2015 – where has the year gone?! We’ve covered the hot topic of proportionality in this issue of Costs Brief with detailed commentary from Gary Knight as well as guidance from a Commercial Court Judge. There is also consideration…
