IF YOU SETTLE WITH SOME OF THE PARTIES THE OTHERS CAN STILL COME AFTER YOU FOR COSTS: THE LESSONS OF DUFOO

 In Dufoo -v- Tolaini and Ors [2014] EWCA Civ 1536 the Court of Appeal considered the issue of costs liability between the claimants where two claimants had settled their action with a defendant but a third went on to trial and lost. It was held that, despite an agreement that the defendant would no...

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