KA-2023-000225 - [2025] EWHC 1605 (KB)

The Costs Judge concluded that it was not appropriate to compel the provision of the identifying company number for the Gibraltar-based company, AJG Limited, to which a payment had been made from the Claimant's recovered compensation. He relied on a “general principle” that a defendant is not normally obliged to provide information “where such information can be obtained elsewhere”, although he considered that there were cost implications because of the Defendant's non-assistance.