Costs orders: Does QOCS cover appeals?

Ryan Bright highlights the implications of a recent Court of Appeal decision ‘The claimant had sought to overturn DJ James’s order by relying on his own failure to comply with the procedural requirements.’ If a personal injury claimant is protected by qualified one-way costs shifting (QOCS) in first instance proceedings, can that claimant also rely …
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Costs: The appeal of QOCS

Paul Jones explores a case concerning whether a costs order applied to an appeal ‘The intention of the QOCS rules was to afford costs protection to claimants and, therefore, it would not be appropriate to treat the appeal as separate proceedings such that QOCS did not apply.’ It is now over three years since the …
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