COSTS BUDGETS IN FACEBOOK DEFAMATION CLAIM: AN IMPORTANT EXAMPLE IN PRACTICE

In Stocker -v- Stocker [2015] EWHC 1634 (QB) Mr Justice Warby considered the costs budgets of both sides in a defamation case. It provides a useful, and important, example of the practical implementation of cost budgeting in practice. "It would in my judgment be absurd to suggest that such a sum is ...