JUDGE OVERTURNS NON-PARTY COSTS ORDER AGAINST CLAIMS MANAGEMENT COMPANY: ANOTHER (EXPENSIVE) BATTLE IN THE “NEVER-ENDING WAR”
I am grateful to Navid Hakimmaani, Consultant Solicitor at Collins Benson Goldhill LLP, for sending me a copy of the judgment of HHJ Mark Gargan in Smith -v- AXA Insurance UK PlC & Spectra Drive Limited (24th December 2024), a…
IF YOU WANT A NON-PARTY COSTS ORDER YOU NEED TO “SHOUT” OUT IN ADVANCE: “YOU NEVER GIVE ME YOUR MONEY…”
In Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC & Anor v WPMC Ltd & Anor [2018] EWCA Civ 2005 the Court of Appeal overturned a ruling that a director of a company should pay pay a company’s costs. The absence of warning was a…
COSTS ORDERS AGAINST NON-PARTIES: THE RELEVANT PRINCIPLES CONSIDERED AND APPLIED
In Montpelier Business Reorganisation Ltd v Jones & Ors [2017] EWHC 2273 (QB) His Honour Judge Saffman (sitting as a judge of the High Court) considered the issue of costs against non-parties. The principles relating to non-party order were considered and…
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