Claimants who discontinued huge case during trial ordered to pay indemnity costs

Claimants who discontinued their case four days into a six-week trial have been ordered to pay the defendants’ costs on the indemnity basis because their conduct took it ‘out of the norm’. The defendants estimated that they had spent more than £11m in costs.

Court of Appeal upholds law firm’s floating charge to secure £3.8m fee

A law firm had a floating charge to secure a fixed fee of over £3.8m from a collapsed hotel company, appeal judges have ruled. London litigation specialist Candey had the charge over millions of pounds returned to Peak Hotels from earlier, bigger payments into court.

Partial relief from sanction for claimant who submitted partial budget

A claimant who submitted a budget that did not include figures for trial preparation or trial has won relief from a decision that limited the entire budget to court fees only – but only for those parts of the budget that were completed.

High Court rejects “increasingly bizarre” claims against barrister arbitrator

Judge who disparaged one party’s counsel “did not give appearance of bias”

Late appeal refused after solicitors’ administrative errors