Brown v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis & anor [2019] EWCA Civ 1724

Costs orders: QOCS or not?

Do not assume QOCS automatically applies, warns Jasmine Murphy ‘Where a personal injury claim includes claims for other things like car repairs or credit hire for example, QOCS protection is not automatically given.’ It is easy to assume that qualified one-way costs shifting (QOCS) applies automatically to every personal injury case. However the most recent …

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QOCS: A foot in both camps

Ian Meikle reports on a Court of Appeal decision upholding that QOCS does not automatically apply to ‘mixed’ claims involving both a personal injury and non personal injury element ‘The court ruled that claims not for PI damages, even when brought alongside and arising out of the same facts as a PI claim, were not …

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