J90PE914 and K00LU633 - [2025] EWHC 2076 (KB)

The court has a wide discretion with respect to the ordering of costs, both by reason of the provisions of section 51 of the Senior Courts Act 1981 and CPR 44.2, and the claimants’ counsel does not seek to suggest that the court does not have jurisdiction to award costs at this time, only that it should not do so in all the circumstances.