Two cases concerned
wasted costs applications, and the third was over a costs order made on the basis that the solicitors (not the client) were the applicants to an unsuccessful application.
The first two
wasted costs applications both arose as fallout from the Serious Fraud Office's failed prosecution of a defendant, Victor Dahdaleh.
Clearly parties and their lawyers will look more closely at making
wasted costs applications if ordinary costs are not available.
Overlapping areas of work are financial services, sports law & discipline, professional negligence claims, partnership disputes, boardroom disputes and aspects of costs law, including
wasted costs applications against solicitors and barristers.
Not exact matches
An environmentally friendly and
cost - efficient
waste water treatment system is being engineered by Australian company CST Wastewater Solutions for smaller, remote and ecologically sensitive community, municipal, agribusiness and industrial
applications throughout the Asia - Pacific.
After the judgment, the EFCC lawyer, Idris Mohammed, urged Justice Hassan to award a
cost of N5m against Ogungbeje for
wasting the judicial time of the court with his
application.
At the moment ALMANAC focuses on collecting data and on integrating existing
waste management and water management
applications, because here pollution and
cost can be significantly reduced without fundamentally altering the existing hardware and software infrastructures.
In the usual
application of the PP to CC, the
cost if it turns out that there is no significant climate change is usually ignored, not mentioned, or assumed to be trivial in comparison — in much the same way that Pascal omitted to mention the
costs of all the time
wasted praying and studying the Bible.
The REFERTIL is an
application oriented science and technology development project contributing to the
cost efficient transformation of the organic
waste streams from the agriculture and food industry.
Wind power is and will always be a special
application high
cost power source for isolated communities or government - subsidized showcase projects in very rich countries that can afford to
WASTE resources on such ridiculous ventures.
- Changes to
costs within different public bodies to prevent money being
wasted such local authority charges for public law
applications
As an adjunct to his disciplinary work, Marc Beaumont advises and represents barristers and solicitors about resisting
applications for
wasted costs.
In R (on the
application of Hide and others) v Staffordshire County Council [2007] EWHC 2441 (Admin), [2007] All ER (D) 402 (Oct) the solicitor advocate in jeopardy might have been unreasonable and negligent in the conduct of litigation but the evidence was that an order for
wasted costs would carry a significant risk of causing her to become bankrupt.
The matter was thereafter adjourned pending an
application by the insurers (added as second defendant) to seek
wasted costs as against the claimant's solicitor.
This would have the benefit of avoiding the
costs that would be incurred in hearing the
application and that would be
wasted if the plaintiff is successful in its appeal of the Mistrial Ruling or, indeed, from these reasons.
Our snapshot of cases captures a somewhat different picture, which is the
cost of self - represented litigants to the justice system in terms of frivolous, unsupported, or improperly framed claims,
applications and appeals, resulting in adjournments and, more generally,
wasted and inefficiently used court time.
Following a hearing regarding claims made by seven claimants under TUPE on 6th and 7th May 2014, at the Bristol Employment Tribunal, at which the claimants succeeded, an
application was made by the Treasury Solicitors, who were acting on behalf of the first respondents, for
wasted costs under rules 80 — 82 of the Employment Tribunal Rules of Procedure 2013.
The
application for
wasted costs was made on 15th August 2016 by letter, to the Employment Tribunal.
Unsuccessful
application for
wasted costs in the Employment Tribunal following an adjourned hearing on TUPE.
Following submissions from counsel for both parties, Employment Judge Mulvaney rejected the
application for
wasted costs.
His expertise in the area of
costs (described by Legal 500 as the leading player), provides him with an excellent platform for all
wasted costs issues and
applications at both first instance and appellate levels.
Cut paint
application costs over 30 % annually by implementing an environmental action plan for decrease in paint usage, increase in paint recycling and reduction in paint
waste disposal.
Development - design - project management role for system to assess regulatory requirements for Superfund
waste sites (system was one of 3 finalist systems in the 1993 Object
Application Awards competition, from 22 entries in the
Cost / Benefit Advantages Category at Object World conference, San Francisco, June, 1993).