TRIAL HAD NOT "COMMENCED" : ADDITIONAL LIABILITY NOT 100%: HIGH COURT DECISION ON COSTS

In James -v- Ireland [2015] EWHC 1259 (QB) Mrs Justice Slade DBE overturned an earlier decision that a trial had commenced and the claimant was entitled to 100% uplift in costs. (The uplift in costs resulted in a sum of about £320,000.) "The 100% percentage increase is payable when a settlement is r...