Costs: It’s not winning but taking part that counts

Eversheds Sutherland | The Commercial Litigation Journal | July/August 2012 #44
Mark Surguy looks at the costs consequences of not quite winning The trial judge decided that that the notion of ‘success’ depended on who was paying money to whom at the end of the case. He did not think that the claimant had exaggerated his case and felt he had reasonably relied on expert evidence. …

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Clinical Negligence: The price of success

1 Chancery Lane | Personal Injury Law Journal | September 2011 #98
Simon Trigger considers the cost perils of overstating your case ‘The old maxim that you have to incur 100% of your costs to recover 1% of your damages appears to have been disproved by the Court of Appeal.’The question of what constitutes success in a piece of litigation was recently revisited by the Court of …

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