Costs: Equitable intervention in legal costs

Paul Jones reflects on a case where an insurer attempted to side step a claimant’s claim ‘While the court accepted that the individual claimants’ liability to their solicitor was nil and, therefore, there was no lien to protect, the court held the claimant solicitors had an entitlement in their own right to be paid costs …
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Cases Referenced

  • Edmondson Solicitors v Haven Insurance [2015] EWCA Civ 1230
  • Khans Solicitors (a firm) v Chifuntwe [2013] EWCA Civ 481