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Summary of Recent Cases - Costs

Vaughan v Jones & Ors, High Ct (Ch D) 11/8/2006
In the circumstances it was not appropriate to grant a third party costs order against persons who had provided the funds necessary to annul the claimant's bankruptcy, thereby enabling the claimant to bring proceedings against the defendant, and who had provided the claimant with a loan. The loan had not been made in order to fund the litigation, rather it was payment for obtaining an option over the claimant's property.

Rogers v Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council, CA (Civ Div) 31/7/2006
A party who had an after-the-event insurance policy with staged premiums should have informed its opponent of that fact and should have set out the trigger moments when the second or later stages would be reached.

Moon v Garrett & Ors, CA (Civ Div) 28/7/2006
The trial judge had correctly exercised his discretion in directing a Sanderson order against the unsuccessful party who, in defending the claim, had sought to blame the claimant's employer.


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