LATE COSTS BUDGET: RELIEF FROM SANCTIONS GRANTED: DEFENDANT DROPPED THE BALL BUT THIS WAS FORGIVABLE

In Manchester Shipping Ltd v Balfour Shipping Ltd & Anor [2020] EWHC 164 (Comm) Lionel Persey QC (sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge) granted relief from sanctions to a defendant who had filed a costs budget late.  The case is an important lesson in that the defendant had dutifully followed al...