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FUNDAMENTAL DISHONESTY – Court rejects FD allegations and awards Claimant over £970k. After a 7-day trial, James Arney KC (acting for the claimant and instructed by Grant Incles of Russell-Cooke solicitors) was successful in securing over £970k for a 45-year…
Anthony Johnson was instructed by DWF on a case where the Judge made a Wasted Costs Order against the former solicitors of a Claimant whose case had been Struck Out at trial after it transpired that he was unable to…
Her Honour Judge Wall sitting as a judge of the High Court. 2 February 2022: Legal expenses coverage.
The doctrine of mistake in the context of P36 offers. Richard Wilkinson was instructed on behalf of C in a fatal accident claim on whose behalf a Part 36 offer had mistakenly been made on the issue of liability on…
Anthony Johnson represented the Defendant in its successful dismissal of the Claimant’s application to appeal against a case management decision not to allow him to rely upon expert evidence from a retired Highways Engineer in relation to the correct categorisation…
Mark James was instructed on a ten day detailed assessment involving complex arguments about whether costs incurred after the relevant costs hours could be included in the bill and whether interest should run from a date before the costs order…
Anthony Johnson acted for the successful Defendant/Respondent in the Court of Appeal in this case which sought to explore the correct interpretation and[AJ1] the validity of a Claimant’s Part 36 offer for the purposes of determining whether the costs consequences…
Mark James was instructed by Levenes on a case regarding whether a defendant’s offer that made no mention of costs actually included an offer to pay costs; and, if it did, whether defendant could overcome the ‘formidable obstacle’ test to…
Richard Boyle (instructed by Michael Rimer of the Legal Aid Agency) appeared on behalf of the Lord Chancellor in costs proceedings in the High Court, Administrative Division, heard by Lane J: Fuseon Ltd v Senior Courts Costs Office & the Lord…
Richard Boyle (instructed by Faith Cosgrove of A & M Bacon) appeared in an appeal before HHJ Walden-Smith, sitting with DJ Lethem as an assessor. The judge allowed the appeal against Master Gordon-Saker (as he was then) in which the master had…
