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Costs: Ours not to count the cost
Andrew Beck and Gwendoline Davies provide an update on pre-action costs ‘Issuing merely protective proceedings that, in all likelihood, will never be pursued, or issuing tactically to put pressure on a defendant to settle what might not necessarily be a very strong claim, could give rise to liability to pay the defendant’s pre-action costs.’A recent …
Cases Referenced
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- Citation Plc v Ellis Whittam Ltd [2012] EWHC 764 (QB); [2013] EWCA Civ 155
- Clydesdale Bank plc v Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward [2014] EWHC (Ch)
- Re Gibson's Settlement Trusts [1981] Ch 179
- Webb Resolutions Ltd v Countrywide Surveyors Ltd (2016) unreported, EWHC Ch, 4 May