Costs: Ours not to count the cost

Andrew Beck and Gwendoline Davies provide an update on pre-action costs ‘Issuing merely protective proceedings that, in all likelihood, will never be pursued, or issuing tactically to put pressure on a defendant to settle what might not necessarily be a very strong claim, could give rise to liability to pay the defendant’s pre-action costs.’A recent …
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Costs In Issue: Issuing protective proceedings – a pre-emptive strike or friendly fire?

Shilpa Shah explains how withdrawing a premature case can still lead to a costs order ‘The case of Clydesdale Bank plc v Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward [2014] has firmly brought the risk of adverse cost consequences to mind and may have much wider ranging implications in personal injury cases in respect of claims which are …
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