Finglands Coachways Ltd v O’Hare [2014] EWHC 1513 (QB)

Costs: Less pain more gain

Miranda Whiteley summarises recent guidance on costs from the Technology and Construction Court ‘Proportionality is not all about the relationship between the size of the claim and the claimant’s (or the total) costs bill.’ We have had to wait for nearly two years for some guidance from the courts on the new proportionality test for …

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Costs: Proportionality

Paul Jones highlights a recent case concerning costs incurred during the transitional provisions ‘Even where the global costs have not been held to be disproportionate, it was still open to the judge to apply the test of necessity to individual costs which he considered to be disproportionate.’ The 1 April 2013 brought a new test …

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