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King's / Queen's Bench Division of the High Court
KB-2023-003483 - [2025] EWHC 1799 (KB)
Fecha: 14-Jul-2025
Conclusions
Overall conclusion
For all these reasons, I order that the Claimants pay D3’s costs of these proceedings incurred on or before 2 May 2025 and D3’s costs of and occasioned by the 12 June 2025 hearing, on the standard basis, to be the subject of detailed assessment if they cannot be agreed. The Claimants must make payments on account of costs of (i) £72,805.80 and £19,776 to D3 by 4.30 pm on 29 September 2025.
- 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