Trademark dispute – Solicitor’s retainer – Reasonableness – Claimant instructing defendant solicitor – Solicitor giving estimate of likely costs – Final figure exceeding estimate – Costs judge holding defendant not…
Solicitor – Costs
Legal costs – Solicitors’ retainer – Solicitors appearing on record as representing multiple clients – Whether claimants rebutting presumption that defendants liable to pay solicitors – Whether judge erring in…
Judicial review – Challenge to grant of planning permission – Permission granted but claim dismissed at substantive hearing – Respondents awarded costs save for those of permission hearing – Costs…
Judicial review, Costs
Costs – Apportionment
Restrictive covenants — Applications to modify covenants to permit development — Section 84(1) of Law of Property Act 1925 — Respondent lodging objections to modification but withdrawing them before hearing…
Lands Tribunal – Costs
Disclosure of documents – Appellants tendering for tunnelling and mining operations – Respondents expecting to be awarded tender – Tender going to wholly owned subsidiary of appellants – Respondents suspecting…
Civil Procedure – Costs
Settlement of claim — Claimants accepting sum in accordance with valuation by joint expert — Sum originally claimed much greater — Parties agreeing that costs to be determined by court…
One of the changes made to Part II of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, by the Regulatory Reform (Business Tenancies)(England and Wales) Order 2003, was to allow landlords to…