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RTA fixed costs: Wasted costs order made against lawyer who instructed Counsel to attend infant settlement hearing (News, 9 August 2011)

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Published on: 11 August 2011
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His Honour Judge Platt has made a wasted costs order against a firm of lawyers who instructed Counsel to attend an RTA infant settlement hearing. He has given them leave to appeal to the Court of Appeal and told them to “put up or shut up”: GW and T Ad v BW and RP [2011]

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