Transcripts of Supreme Court Costs Office Decisions dated 2004 and earlier
ATE Insurance
Formality requirements
Tilby v Perfect Pizza Ltd (February 2002 : Chief Master Hurst, Senior Costs Judge)
Premiums
Ashworth v Peterborough United Football Club Ltd (June 2002 : Master Wright)
The Claims Direct Test Cases (1) (July 2002 : Chief Master Hurst, Senior Costs Judge)
The Claims Direct Test Cases (2) (January 2003 : Chief Master Hurst, Senior Costs Judge)
Pirie v Ayling (February 2003 : Chief Master Hurst)
Sarwar v Alam (March 2003 : Master Rogers)
The Accident Group Test Cases (1) (May 2004 : Chief Master Hurst, Senior Costs Judge)
The Accident Group Test Cases (2)(Swing Premium) (May 2003 : Chief Master Hurst, Senior Costs Judge)
Conditional Fee Agreements
Formality requirements
Woods v Chaleff (April 2002 : Master Rogers)
The Accident Group Test Cases (November 2002)
Ghannouchi v Houni Ltd (March 2004: Master Seager Berry)
Housing disrepair cases
Bowen v Bridgend County Borough Council (March 2004 : Master O’Hare)
Notices of funding
Metcalfe v Clipston (April 2004 : Master Campbell)
Recovery of success fees on summarily assessed costs
Thompson v Anderson (December 2003 : Master Campbell)
Solicitor's duty to give costs information
Duffy v Port Ramsgate Ltd; (February 2004 : Master O'Hare)
Success Fees
Bensusan v Freedman (September 2001 : Chief Master Hurst, Senior Costs Judge)
Abrew v Tesco Stores (May 2003: Master Rogers)
Court of Protection Cases
Costs of professional receivers
In the matter of Radcliffe (December 2004 : Master O'Hare)
Indemnity Principle
Collective conditional fee agreements
Gliddon v Lloyd Maunder Ltd (January 2003 : Master O'Hare)
Legal Aid
Liability under Access to Justice Act 1999 section 11
Frost v James Finlay Bank Ltd (March 2003 : Master Simons)
Yenula Properties Ltd v Naidu (June 2003 : Master Campbell)
Ryan v Dunscrest Ltd (May 2004 : Master Wright, reversed in part, see Case Summaries, No 27 of 2005)
Jeffrey v Havering Hospitals Nhs Trust (June 2004 : Master Simons, appeal settled August 2004 without a hearing)
Cafane v Lambeth LB (September 2004 : Master Gordon-Saker)
Litigants in Person
Litigant an American attorney
Pritchard Englefield v Steinberg (March 2003 : Master Rogers)
Non-Contentious Costs
Costs information supplied to residuary beneficiary; relevance
Barrett v Rutt-Field(January 2004 : Master Rogers)
Hourly rates and value element
Jemma Trust Co Ltd v Liptrott (1) (September 2002 : Master Rogers : reversed on appeal, see [2003] EWCA Civ 1476)
Jemma Trust Co Ltd v Liptrott (2) (February 2004 : Master Rogers): upheld on appeal, see [2004] EWHC 1404)
Practice and Procedure
Application for disclosure
N G Bailey & Co Ltd v Amec Design & Management Ltd (October 2003 : Master Rogers)
Owens v Biffa Waste Services Ltd (April 2004 : Master O'Hare)
Application under CPR 44.14 (misconduct)
Smith v Havering Hospitals NHS Trust (May 2003 : Master Wright)
Pritchard Englefield v Steinberg (No 2) (October 2003 : Master Rogers)
Costs estimates
Burns v Novartis Grimsby Ltd (February 2004 : Chief Master Hurst, Senior Costs Judge)
Costs of work done by a litigation friend
Poccia v Toussiant (July 2004 : Master Seager Berry)
Costs of work done by claims and recovery agents
Papera Traders Co Ltd v Hyundai Merchant Marine Co Ltd (The Eurasian Dream) (September 2003 : Master Seager Berry, appeal to Court of Appeal settled March 2004 without a hearing)
Hourly rates for solicitors
Holland v PKF (a firm) (October 2004 : Master Wright)
Rights of audience
Ahmed v Powell (February 2003 : Chief Master Hurst, Senior Costs Judge)
Summary assessment of costs awarded by an arbitrator
Rotary Watches Ltd v Rotary Watches (USA) Inc (December 2004 : Master Rogers)
Words and phrases: "costs of action"
Alpacas Ltd v Wilsey (July 2003 : Master Simons)
Proportionality
Commercial Court Cases
Toyota Financial Services (UK) PLC v Sharma (August 2002 : Master Rogers)
Commercial Claim in the QBD
Holland v PKF (a firm) (August 2004 : Master Wright)
Sirius International Insurance -v- Erc Frankona Ruckversicherungs AG (July 2002 : Master Wright)
Defamation proceedings
Abu v MGN Ltd (July 2004 : Master O'Hare)
Relevance of costs incurred pre-CPR
Clyde v Thomson Holidays (November 2002 : Master Campbell)
Solicitors Act 1974
One fifth rule
Slade v Boyes Turner Solicitors (October 2003 : Master Campbell)
Special circumstances
Bassett v Sears Tooth (March 2004 : Master Wright)
Lakhani v Eversheds (October 2004 : Master Wright)
Time Limits
Radcliffes le Brasseur v Wickes (February 2004 : Master Wright)