Case No. EWHC-1634-(IPEC)
Intellectual Property Enterprise Court

Case No. EWHC-1634-(IPEC)

Fecha: 27-Jun-2022

Scopema v Scot Seat

[2013] EWPCC 37 at [14]. 15.The time at which the court is best placed to weigh the many factors relevant to the summary assessment of capped costs for each stage is at the end of the relevant phase of the proceedings. It is an important part of the IPEC streamlined costs regime that parties know that (absent unreasonable conduct falling within 63.26(2)) this summary assessment exercise will be done once at the end of the relevant phase of the proceedings and not every time an application is made in the course of proceedings. 16.The onus was thus on Ms Wickenden to persuade me that exceptionally a different course ought to be adopted. Such an order was made in