ISSUE BASED COSTS ORDERS: RELEVANT FACTORS INCLUDE CLAIMANT’S OFFER OF SETTLEMENT

The judgment in Welsh v Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust (Costs) [2018] EWHC 2491 (QB) is one of those "cut out and keep" judgments in that it contains a useful precis of all the relevant rules and principles relating to issue based costs orders.  The failure by the defendant to make an offer of settlem...