The Prince Harry saga continues: I believe that an application for permission to appeal the rather expensive costs order is imminent. Colin Campbell, the retired costs judge who remains madly active as a consultant at Kain Knight, made an intriguing observation about the order in question. The Daily Mail team asserts that an indemnity costs order renders any budget otiose. However, this proposition has never been comprehensively analysed. It is based on broadly obiter observations which are in themselves contradictory.
Altogether now
Actions brought on behalf of a large cohort of claimants are common. In Black Horse Ltd v Angel and other cases [2026] EWCA Civ 831, it was decided that in a dispute concerning motor finance agreements where 5,000 claimants were suing a variety of eight defendants, the use of a multi-party claim form was proper. The defendants wanted each claimant to issue their own claim form; many forms,
