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Parties ordered to revise disproportionate costs budgets (Red and White Services Ltd v Phil Anslow Ltd & Anor)

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Published on: 16 August 2018

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What are the practical implications of the judgment?
What was the background?
What did the court decide?

Article summary

Dispute Resolution analysis: The High Court decided that the claimant and third party’s costs budgets of £1.5m each were disproportionate in relation to the claimant’s trespass claim against the defendant and the defendant’s competition law counterclaim against the claimant and a Part 20 claim against the third party. After the budgets had been produced, the defendant indicated that the likely damages would be in the region of £80,000–120,000. The court therefore directed the claimant and third party to file revised budgets not exceeding £800,000 each. Andy Creer, barrister at Hardwicke, examines the court’s decision.

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