Bestfort Developments Llp and Others v Ras Al Khaimah Investment Authority and Others: CA 8 Nov 2016

Whether threshold conditions met for grant of order for security for costs.
Held: The approach adopted should be simple and not ‘over-burdened by technical and semantic arguments relating to the construction of the ‘threshold’ test’

Black, Gloster, Briggs LJJ
[2016] EWCA Civ 1099, [2018] 1 WLR 1099
Bailii
England and Wales
Cited by:
CitedMG v AR FD 16-Nov-2021
Family Case: Costs Security depends on Case Merits
Application for security for costs in family cases.
Held: In contrast to civil cases generally, in a family case the merits of the application and the strength of the defence necessarily have to be carefully considered. It is only by . .
CitedTulip Trading Ltd v Bitcoin Association for BSV and Others ChD 5-Jan-2022
Security required for Bitcoin claim
Two applications for security for costs. The claimant claimed against fifteen overseas residents requiring a re-write of cryotocurrency systems so that he could recover sums he said were due to him in respect of Bitcoin assets which he said have . .

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Costs

Updated: 17 January 2022; Ref: scu.571219