COST BITES 186: “MY CASE WAS SO HOPELESS I SHOULDN’T HAVE TO PAY YOUR COSTS”: NOT A WHOLLY ATTRACTIVE ARGUMENT

In Mainwaring v Bailey [2024] EWHC 2614 (Fam) Mr Justice Henke ordered an unsuccessful appellant to pay the respondent's costs.  He rejected the appellant's argument that his appeal was so evidently hopeless that the respondent should not have responded.   He was also suspicious of the appellant's a...