[2025] EWHC 2771 (Ch)

Fecha: 30-Oct-2025

Heading

Approved Judgment

In the Matter of Sandstone Legal Limited

(Costs Judgment)

Neutral Citation Number [2025] EWHC 2771 (Ch)

CR-2025-000640

and CR 2024 007941

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE

BUSINESS AND PROPERTY COURTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES

INSOLVENCY AND COMPANIES LIST (ChD)

IN THE MATTER OF SANDSTONE LEGAL LIMITED (IN ADMINISTRATION) (Company Registration Number 10998083)

AND IN THE MATTER OF THE INSOLVENCY ACT 1986

The Rolls Building

7 Rolls Building

Fetter Lane, London

EC4A 1NL

Date: 30 October 2025

Before:

INSOLVENCY AND COMPANIES COURT JUDGE BARBER

Between:

MR ANDREW SETTLE	Applicant
- And -
(1) SANDSTONE LEGAL LIMITED (2) SEVEN STARS LEGAL LIMITED And Between MEDICAL-LEGAL APPOINTMENTS LIMITED Petitioning Creditor	Respondents
And SANDSTONE LEGAL LIMITED Respondent

Ms Catherine Doran (instructed by Mezzle Law) appeared for the Applicant

Mr Louis Doyle KC (instructed by Brandsmiths Limited) appeared for the Second Respondent, Seven Stars Legal Limited, a creditor

Ms Eleanor Vickery (instructed by Kuit Steinart Levy LLP) appeared for the Petitioner

Mr Benjamin Lafferty (instructed by Ward Hadaway) appeared for the Administrators, Ms Philippa Smith and Ms Jessica Thomas

Hearing date: 18 June 2025

Approved Judgment

This judgment was handed down remotely at 9 a.m. on 30 October 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.

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ICC Judge Barber