King's / Queen's Bench Division of the High Court
KB-2023-003483 - [2025] EWHC 1799 (KB)
Fecha: 14-Jul-2025
Conclusion in respect of CPR 38.6
Conclusion in respect of CPR 38.6
For the reasons given at [56]-[98] above, the general rule in CPR 38.6 applies and the Claimants shall pay D3’s costs of these proceedings incurred on or before the date on which the Notice of Discontinuance was served, namely 2 May 2025. Those costs shall be assessed on the standard basis, to be the subject of detailed assessment if they cannot be agreed.
- Heading
- Introduction
- The legal framework
- The factual background
- The procedural history
- Issue, service and acknowledgement of the claim and the Claimants’ Part 18 application
- Events between 14 May 2024 and 11 December 2024, including the Claimants’ s.13 application
- The 12 December 2024 hearing and events thereafter
- The Notice of Discontinuance and events thereafter
- (i): D3’s provision of information to the Claimants
- (ii): D3’s deletion of the allegedly defamatory posts at the request of the Claimants
- (iii): The merits of the Claimants’ claim against D3
- (iv): Alleged unreasonable conduct by D3
- Overall conclusion with respect of the CPR 38.6 presumption
- Summary assessment
- Conclusion in respect of CPR 38.6
- Consequential matters
- A payment on account of costs and time for making any such payment
- Conclusions