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Case No: QB-2022-002405 and others
NCN:[2025] EWHC 2307 (KB)
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
OF ENGLAND AND WALES
KING’S BENCH DIVISION
Rolls Building
Fetter Lane
London
EC4A 1NL
Before:
THE HON. MRS JUSTICE COCKERILL DBE
SENIOR COSTS JUDGE ROWLEY
Between:
VARIOUS CLAIMANTS
Claimants
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MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG AND OTHERS
FORD MOTOR COMPANY AND OTHERS
NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD AND OTHERS
STELLANTIS AUTO SAS AND OTHERS
AND OTHERS
Defendants
PAN NOX EMISSIONS LITIGATION
Representation: see Appendix 1
Hearing dates: 15,16 July 2025
APPROVED JUDGMENT
This judgment was handed down remotely by the judge and circulated to the parties’ representatives by email. The date and time for hand-down is deemed to be Wednesday 10 September 2025 at 10:00am
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- Mrs Justice Cockerill DBE and Senior Costs Judge Rowley
- Background
- Lessons learned from the first CMH
- Stress testing “over lawyering”
- The comparison with Tranche 2
- Standard figures or a range of reasonable and proportionate costs?
- Claimants’ budgets generally: Lead Firms & Others
- Defendants’ budgets generally: Amount of costs actually being incurred
- CMCs and PTR
- Co-ordination
- Defendants
- Section 13
- Defendants
- Selecting Sample Claimants
- Defendants
- Individual Statements of Case
- Defendants
- Disclosure
- Defendants
- Witness statements
- Defendants
- Defendants
- Quantum Trial Preparation
- Defendants
- Quantum Trial
- Defendants
- Second General Phases – GLO Management Costs
- Second General Phases: Fortnightly Meetings
- The non-budgeted phases: Expert Reports and ADR / Settlement
- Conclusions
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