Posted inCosts Issue 13

Third Party Costs Orders and Experts: Order Restored

Miss Martine Robinson v Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Trust v Mr Christopher Mercier [2023] EWHC 21 (KB) Sweeting J in the High Court allowed a medico-legal expert’s appeal against a Third Party Costs Order (“TPCO”) made against him. The TPCO had awarded the Defendant NHS Trust the full sum of…
July 18, 2023Posted inCosts, Issue 13Tags:
Posted inCosts Issue 10

QOCS and Set-Off

Ho v Adelekun [2021] UKSC 43 In a case to which qualified one-way costs shifting (‘QOCS’) applies, can a defendant set-off a costs order in its favour against the claimant’s costs where there is no damages award that the defendant can set-off its costs against? That was the issue which…
January 24, 2022Posted inCosts, Issue 10Tags:
Posted inCosts Issue 4

QOCS and Mixed Claims

Brown v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [2019] EWCA 1724  This article originally appeared in Issue 4 (March 2020). The Court of Appeal has clarified that if proceedings involve a claim for damages for personal injury together with a non-personal injury claim, the costs protection under the qualified one-way…
March 1, 2020Posted inCosts, Issue 4Tags:
Posted inClinical negligence Costs Issue 2 Personal injury Quantum

Fundamental Dishonesty

This article originally appeared in Issue 2 (July 2019). Introduction  There are two separate and distinct regimes relating to fundamental dishonesty in litigation which have been available in personal injury claims since 2013. However, in the last year or two, there has been increasing attention focused on the perils and…
July 1, 2019Posted inClinical negligence, Costs, Issue 2, Personal injury, QuantumTags: ,