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Costs liability following settlement with no agreement as to costs (Conversant Wireless Licensing SARL v Huawei Technologies)

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Published on: 10 October 2018

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Dispute Resolution analysis: Mr Justice Henry Carr was confronted by an application for an anti-suit injunction which was eventually compromised without a hearing upon undertakings being supplied. No agreement was reached as to costs. He declared that there is no convention in such circumstances that costs be ignored altogether. Rather, it was the duty of the court to determine where liability should fall without embarking upon an expensive, elaborate inquiry. Case analysis by Professor Dominic Regan, City Law School London, and honorary special adviser to the Association of Costs Lawyers.

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