COUNSEL’S FEES ARE RECOVERABLE ON A CASE THAT LEAVES THE PORTAL: WHEN A TRAIL OF BREADCRUMBS LEADS NOWHERE

In the judgment today in Finsbury Food Group Plc v Dover [2020] EWHC 2176 (QB) Mrs Justice Lambert rejected the defendant's arguments that counsel's fees were not recoverable.

"I do not accept that leaving the legal costs of valuing a claim which has fallen outside the Protocol unfixed and subject ...