header-logo header-logo

Solicitor—Costs—Payment of costs by non-party

27 May 2010
Issue: 7419 / Categories: Case law , Law reports
printer mail-detail

Adris and others v Royal Bank of Scotland (Cartel Client Review Ltd and others, additional parties) [2010] All ER (D) 156 (May), [2010] EWHC 941 (QB)

Queen’s Bench Division, Manchester District Registry (Mercantile Court), Judge Waksman QC sitting as a judge of the High Court, 29 April 2010
The High Court has reviewed the principles on making a non party costs order.

Julia Smith (instructed by DLA Piper (UK) LLP solicitors) for the Royal Bank of Scotland plc.

James MacDonald (instructed by Addleshaw Goddard LLP) for HSBC Bank plc and Marks and Spencer Financial Services plc. Fred Philpott (instructed by SCM Solicitors) for Bank of Scotland plc. Julie-Anne Luck (instructed by Slater Heelis) for W.
B appeared in person.

W was the sole shareholder in CCR, an authorised claims management company. It managed claims including those relating to credit agreements with banks, said to be unenforceable by reason of non-compliance with the Consumer Credit Agreement Act 1974. A firm of solicitors, CCLS, run by B, who was a sole practitioner, entered into an agreement

If you are not a subscriber, subscribe now to read this content
If you are already a subscriber sign in
...or Register for two weeks' free access to subscriber content

MOVERS & SHAKERS

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

Blake Morgan managing partner appointed chair of CBI South-East Council

Birketts—Phillippa O’Neill

Birketts—Phillippa O’Neill

Commercial dispute resolution team welcomes partner in Cambridge

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Firm strengthens international funds capability with senior hire

NEWS
The proposed £11bn redress scheme following the Supreme Court’s motor finance rulings is analysed in this week’s NLJ by Fred Philpott of Gough Square Chambers
In this week's issue, Stephen Gold, NLJ columnist and former district judge, surveys another eclectic fortnight in procedure. With humour and humanity, he reminds readers that beneath the procedural dust, the law still changes lives
Generative AI isn’t the villain of the courtroom—it’s the misunderstanding of it that’s dangerous, argues Dr Alan Ma of Birmingham City University and the Birmingham Law Society in this week's NLJ
James Naylor of Naylor Solicitors dissects the government’s plan to outlaw upward-only rent review (UORR) clauses in new commercial leases under Schedule 31 of the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, in this week's NLJ. The reform, he explains, marks a seismic shift in landlord-tenant power dynamics: rents will no longer rise inexorably, and tenants gain statutory caps and procedural rights
Writing in NLJ this week, James Harrison and Jenna Coad of Penningtons Manches Cooper chart the Privy Council’s demolition of the long-standing ‘shareholder rule’ in Jardine Strategic v Oasis Investments
back-to-top-scroll