Gray v Toner (Unreported Liverpool CC 11 January 2011)

Costs: Interesting times

Paul Jones considers the date from which interest should run ‘In 2011 there were a number of decisions, including Gray v Toner [2011] and Motto & ors v Trafigura & anor [2011], that held that, where a case was funded by a CFA, interest should not run from the date of the order but should, …

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Costs: A costly review

Paul Jones analyses the most noteworthy cases over the past year ‘A court still has a discretion to assess costs on the standard basis by reference to the sum that would have been recoverable on the small claims track if the case had been allocated to that track.’ The end of the year seems like …

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Review: A year in the life

Mark Fowles looks back at the year’s important personal injury cases ‘English law has always been nervous about dealing with issues of causation The modern test is a test of policy. The first test is predominantly factual. The second gathers up much of the traditional language that lawyers use in attempting to set a limit …

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