Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP can now feel some sense of security about recovering its legal costs in Mauldin v. Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP after the Ontario Court of Appeal changed the terms
of the cost orders in the investment fraud case.
The fact that an employee or director of a company gives evidence does not necessarily mean that the company is taking part in the action for the
purposes of a costs order against a non-party company.
On the topic «Reimbursement and allocation of costs», Celeste Salinas Quero will focus on the apportionment
of costs ordered by arbitrators under the SCC Rules from 2007 and forward.
Moses L.J. who was plainly alive to the unfairness inflicted on DLA and how its predicament could if not cured, lead to other solicitors being discouraged from properly and fearlessly representing their clients, held that the 1981 Act did not oust judicial review as the
making of this costs order was sufficiently remote from the trial process so as not to interfere with it.
The Court of Appeal held that it was not necessary for Mr Khan to have funded or controlled the litigation to be the
subject of a costs order.
It occurs to me, reading what is googleable about Eloise's work for a few minutes that she (i) assisted with the investigation into a death in police custody while seconded to the IPCC (ii) was seconded to a solicitors» firm to assist with the phone hacking disclosure (iii) did pro bono work (iv) was involved with a judicial
review of a costs order that was requested by a Local Authority in a Non Payment Council Tax case at the local magistrates, which got into the law reports.
Fifth, there were aspects of the defendants» conduct which reinforced the
award of a costs order in favour of the laimants.
She was heavily involved in the case before the election commissioner to overturn the result of the mayoral election in Tower Hamlets in May 2014, including the
enforcement of costs orders and resistance to an application by the ousted mayor for judicial review.
The Divisional Court's decision in Carleton9 established a two - part test to determine when a lawyer's conduct is
deserving of a costs order.
Already a group of Bristol academics has stated this week that QOCS would massively restrict a person's ability to bring a due to
fear of a costs order.
As you know, any defence lawyer who contests the motion to restore, the fist time around, will probably — almost certainty in my experience in the region I practice in — put the client on the wrong
end of a costs order.
Further information about PCOs is available at: KnowHow: How the court assesses costs and
types of costs orders — Costs capping orders / protective costs orders.
Lord Goldsmith, chairman of the ATJF, said: «The
number of costs orders obtained started modestly and has seen a promising increase during 2010.
The only other integration of «reasonableness» is in the anticipation of the assessment of costs at the end of the case after the successful party and unsuccessful parties have been determined for the
purpose of a costs order.