Senior Courts Costs Office

No.25 of 2006

Sharratt v London Buses [2005] EWHC 3018 (QB); [2006] 4 Costs LR 584

21 December 2005

Ramsey J

The costs with which the Court was concerned were those which the claimant had incurred in the TAG test litigation ([2003] 1 All ER 353).

The Court held that the terms for payment of costs and disbursements in a CFA between the client’s solicitors and solicitor-agents they appointed (Rowe Cohen) did not break the chain of indemnity back to the client. Accordingly, the recovery of those costs was not defeated by the indemnity principle.