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In Various Claimants v News Group Newspapers [2023] EWHC 827 (SCCO 4 April 2023) Costs Judge Rowley emphasised the often overlooked but obvious point that the GHR are the starting point;

American venture capitalist and founder of Ariadne Capital, Julie Meyer has lost her appeal against a contempt finding and suspended prison sentence.

Sir Bob Neil MP, the chairman of the justice select committee, has voiced his reservations about the proposed fixed costs regime for small value clinical negligence cases.

In a one-day appeal concerning the appropriate forum for trial, US law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP had their costs reduced from £72,800 to £55,000.

London law firm Richard Slade & Co (RS) has lost its appeal against a decision of Master Haworth who had held that it had terminated its retainer with its client without good cause or reasonable notice.

Master Thornett has criticised the level of costs in a 'very modest' data breach claim. In Johnson v Eastlight Community Homes Ltd [2021] EWHC 3069 (QB), the Claimant had sought over £50,000 including £15,000 of incurred costs and had suggested a two-day trial in the case where it is also making additional claims for alleged breaches under Article 8 ECHR, GDPR, the Data Protection Act as well as injunctive relief, the latter of which the master described as 'misconceived'