In the judgment given this morning in Faulkner -v- Secretary of State for Energy and Industrial Strategy [2020] EWHC 296 (QB) Mr Justice Turner considered the issue of whether a defendant, ordered to pay costs when failing in an application to set aside a notice of discontinuance, can set those cos...
Unnecessarily modest of Gordon to omit to mention at the outset that he acted for the successful claimant, though his name does appear in the body of the speech by Turner J. This was a very good result against what appears to be a highly aggressive approach by the defendant and a somewhat unhelpful intervention by the judge on set off.