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31 March 2011
Issue: 7459 / Categories: Case law , Law reports
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Costs—Order for costs—Indemnity costs

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Southwark London Borough Council v IBM UK Ltd [2011] EWHC 653 (TCC), [2011] All ER (D) 261 (Mar)

Queen’s Bench Division, Technology and Construction Court, Akenhead J, 21 Mar 2011

The TCC has reiterated the principles on which the court will make an order for indemnity costs.

Nicholas Stewart QC (instructed by the Legal services Department of Southwark Borough Council) for the authority. Jeremy Nicholson QC and Terence Bergin (instructed by Blake Lapthorn) for the defendant.

The claimant local authority brought proceedings against the defendant company for damages in respect of, inter alia, breach of a contract in relation to software contractually supplied to the authority by the defendant company, which was to be provided in connection with the implementation of a master data management system. On 10 January 2011, the defendant’s solicitors made an offer to settle the action on the basis that each side pay its own costs. That offer was to remain open until 4pm on 14 January 2011. The authority rejected the offer, however, and the matter proceeded to trial.

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