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