COST BITES 463: HOW SHOULD A COSTS ORDER BE PHRASED: MAKING SURE THAT IT DOES NOT JUST OVER “COUNSEL STANDING ON THEIR FEET DURING THE APPLICATION”

Here we have an unusual disagreement about how an order for costs should be phrased.  The judge made it clear that the order should make it clear that it was not just covering advocacy. "I prefer the Bourlakovas' formulation. It is, as Mr Kitchener says, a reasonably common formulation of words. Lim...