Cost orders

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If a settlement is reached between issue of the Claim Form and service, should a Notice of Discontinuance be filed? Or a Tomlin Order? Or is no procedural action needed and the Claim Form should simply be left to lapse?

If a settlement is reached between issue of the Claim Form and service, should a Notice of Discontinuance be filed? Or a Tomlin Order? Or is no...

Produced in partnership with David Peter of Devereux Chambers 23rd Jul

Practice notes

Cost orders—the general rule and the court's discretion

Cost orders—the general rule and the court's discretionThis Practice Note looks at costs judges’ discretion to make costs orders (CPR 44 and its...

22nd Jul

Practice notes

Non-party costs orders—company directors and shareholders

Non-party costs orders—company directors and shareholdersThis Practice Note considers non-party costs orders (NPCO) against company directors—the...

20th Jul

Practice notes

Indemnity costs orders—illustrative decisions

Indemnity costs orders—illustrative decisionsThis Tracker contains details of costs judgments in which the court has awarded indemnity costs or has...

19th Jul

Q&As

Where a costs order is made on a joint and several liability basis against multiple defendants, how should that costs order be paid? Each defendant individually pro rata or one defendant who then recovers from all the other defendants?

Where a costs order is made on a joint and several liability basis against multiple defendants, how should that costs order be paid? Each defendant...

Produced in partnership with Jonathan Edwards of Radcliffe Chambers 14th Jul

Practice notes

Non-party costs orders—others who they can be made against

Non-party costs orders—others who they can be made againstThis Practice Note explains who a non-party costs order (NPCO) may be made against. The...

14th Jul

Practice notes

Appeals against cost orders

Appeals against cost ordersThis Practice Notice looks at what you need to consider if appealing a costs order.The starting point is that appeals of...

5th Jul

Practice notes

Interim payment on account of costs orders

Interim payment on account of costs ordersWhat is an interim payment on account of costs?Where the court has made an order for the payment of costs by...

30th Jun

Practice notes

Costs orders—effect of conduct and misconduct

Costs orders—effect of conduct and misconductThis Practice Note looks at the effect of a party’s conduct on both the type of costs order a court will...

24th Jun

Practice notes

Cost orders—interest

Cost orders—interestDefinitionsThe following definitions are used in this Practice Note:•interest—this is an additional award made to the winning...

23rd Jun

Practice notes

Wasted costs orders

Wasted costs ordersWhat is a wasted costs order?A wasted costs order is defined in CPR PD 46, para 5.1 as an order:•that a legal representative pay a...

17th Jun

Practice notes

Proportionate costs orders—illustrative decisions

Proportionate costs orders—illustrative decisionsThe following judgments provide examples of where the court considered the issue of proportionate...

15th Jun

Q&As

Where Party A is ordered to pay costs to Party B following detailed assessment but has a money judgment against Party B from previous proceedings, is there a valid set-off between the money judgment and costs order so as to avoid enforcement of the costs order?

Where Party A is ordered to pay costs to Party B following detailed assessment but has a money judgment against Party B from previous proceedings, is...

6th Jun

Q&As

Is there any authority for a court purporting to make a costs order in instalments?

Is there any authority for a court purporting to make a costs order in instalments?Statutory provisionsSection 71 of the County Courts Act 1984 (CCA...

6th Jun

Q&As

Where a claimant is funded by a third party interested in the outcome of the litigation, are the costs paid by the third party recoverable from the defendant if the claimant is successful?

Where a claimant is funded by a third party interested in the outcome of the litigation, are the costs paid by the third party recoverable from the...

6th Jun

Q&As

If previous solicitors have handed over matter papers without any request from me, do I need to provide an undertaking as to costs?

If previous solicitors have handed over matter papers without any request from me, do I need to provide an undertaking as to costs?This Q&A refers to...

6th Jun

Q&As

What costs will be ordered if an application to set aside default judgment is successful?

What costs will be ordered if an application to set aside default judgment is successful?What costs order will be made depends very much on the...

5th Jun

Q&As

We have received an interim payment of costs from the other party. Can it be used to clear an unpaid invoice or do we have to wait until the final determination of costs?

We have received an interim payment of costs from the other party. Can it be used to clear an unpaid invoice or do we have to wait until the final...

Produced in partnership with Chris Bryden of 4 King’s Bench Walk 5th Jun

Q&As

Where a payment on account costs order is made, can the paying party seek to rely on an agreement containing a right of set-off which was not part of the proceedings but which is itself being disputed?

Where a payment on account costs order is made, can the paying party seek to rely on an agreement containing a right of set-off which was not part of...

Produced in partnership with Nicholas J Browne of Just Costs 5th Jun

Q&As

When can you obtain a charging order to secure a costs judgment? Can you seek to enforce a debt by way of simultaneously seeking a charging order and issuing a statutory demand and will any security be given up in the event of bankruptcy?

When can you obtain a charging order to secure a costs judgment? Can you seek to enforce a debt by way of simultaneously seeking a charging order and...

5th Jun

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