[2025] EWHC 2746 (Comm)

Fecha: 24-Oct-2025

Costs

Costs

The First Defendant is entitled to its costs, being the successful party. The Claimant does not dispute this, although Campbell Johnston Clark stated that they did not have instructions to agree that the First Defendant should be awarded its costs.

However, there is an issue about the amount of the summary assessment to be carried out in respect of those costs.

The First Defendant submitted that:

(1)

The First Defendant’s costs are £65,790.25 in total, comprising £19,500 in respect of solicitors’ fees and £46,290.25 in respect of disbursements (including £4,937.25 in relation to Russian legal fees, which were not included in the First Defendant’s costs schedule prior to the hearing of the application, but were included subsequently).

(2)

These costs are reasonable in amount and reasonably incurred, including the Russian legal fees, which were necessarily incurred in support of the application.

(3)

The First Defendant should also have its costs of the consequential issues application.

(4)

Taking into account the costs in dealing with consequential issues, the First Defendant’s costs are now £78,850.25.

The Claimant did not make any substantive submissions in respect of the quantum of costs to be summarily assessed.

10.

I consider that the First Defendant’s costs are reasonable and proportionate. In those circumstances, I summarily assess the First Defendant’s costs in the amount of £78,850.25.