King's / Queen's Bench Division of the High Court
KA-2025-000017 - [2025] EWHC 2311 (KB)
Fecha: 10-Sep-2025
Mr Justice Dexter Dias
Mr Justice Dexter Dias :
This is the judgment of the court in a costs appeal.
The appeal is from the order of Costs Judge Brown (“the Judge”) handed down on 21 January 2025.
To assist the parties and the public to follow the main lines of the court’s reasoning, the text is divided into six sections, as set out in the table of contents above. The table is hyperlinked to aid swift navigation.
- Heading
- THE HON. MR JUSTICE DEXTER DIAS
- Mr Justice Dexter Dias
- I - Introduction
- II - Issues
- III – Background Facts
- IV - Issue 1
- A - Meaning of “payment”
- B - Meaning of “ultimately”
- C - Meaning of “recovered”
- D - Ratio of Candey
- E - Conclusion: Issue 1
- V – Issue 2
- A - Prime question
- B - Zuberi
- Conclusion: Zuberi
- C - Material breach
- D - Severance
- Conclusion: severance
- E - Conclusion: Issue 2
- Conclusions