BMCE Bank International PLC v Phoenix Commodities PVT LTD & Anor [2018] EWHC 3380(Comm) There is an abundance of caselaw reiterating time and time again how a party should act when there is a failure to comply with Rules, Practice Directions or Orders of the Court. Nevertheless, there remain occasions when a party has,…
On 29th November 2018, David Gaulke, Justice Secretary, announced within the House of Commons from 6th April 2019, conditional fee agreement (‘CFA’) success fees will no longer be recoverable from opponents in defamation and privacy claims. At MRN we have experience dealing with such cost claims deriving out of media law, and much like the…
Ayton v RSM Bentley Jennison and Others [2018] EWCH 2851 (QB) The Defendant was ordered to pay costs in a professional negligence claim, having rejected the chance to settle costs, where the High Court made an Interim Costs Order in the sum of £430,000.00, and costs were to be assessed on an indemnity basis.…