Costs

27 November 2008

Issue: 7347 / Categories: Case law , Procedure & practice , Law digest , In Court

Lingfield Properties (Darlington) Ltd v Padgett Lavender Associates [2008] EWHC 2795, [2008] All ER (D) 162 (Nov)

A court may make a non-party costs order (s 51 of the Supreme Court Act 1981) where there are exceptional circumstances making such an order reasonable and just in the circumstances, “exceptional” meaning no more than outside the ordinary run of cases where parties pursue or defend claims for their own benefit and at their own expense.

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Costs

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Gilson Gray—Paul Madden

Brachers—Gill Turner Tucker

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan—William Charles