Costs management hearing in this managed litigation. Earlier costs budgets have been agreed, but those budgets do not cover the entire litigation up to trial and further budgets have been exchanged to take the managed cases up to, but not through, the trial stage. The claimants have agreed the defendants’ budgets. The defendants have not agreed the claimants’ budgets and practically every item in those budgets is disputed. Some of the disputes are particular to the items in question. Others are more over-arching disputes on points which are akin to questions of principle. This judgment deals with one of them, namely the extent to which budgeting should encompass additional liabilities (uplift and ATE insurance premiums) where, as here, a party (the claimants) has entered a conditional fee agreement (‘CFA’) with its lawyers. The cases with which this judgment is concerned are cases based on privacy and publication, and so are cases in which recovery of additional liabilities from the paying party is still possible.
Mann J
[2016] EWHC 1894 (Ch)
Bailii
England and Wales
Media, Costs
Updated: 20 January 2022; Ref: scu.567515