[2025] UKUT 325 (LC)

Case No: LC-2023-628

IN THE MATTER OF A NOTICE OF REFERENCE

Royal Courts of Justice,

Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

13 October 2025

TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007

COMPENSATION – COSTS – costs of expert witness where little weight placed on their evidence – whether costs should be assessed on the indemnity basis – whether compensation payment should be deferred – s.4 Land Compensation Act 1961

BETWEEN:

NOFAX STATION ROAD LIMITED

Claimant

-and-

THE LONDON BOROUGH OF BARNET

Acquiring Authority

Address: Land at 1-11 Station Road,

West Hendon

Barnet

Peter McCrea OBE FRICS FCIArb

Determination on written representations

Guy Williams KC, instructed by Asserson, for the claimant

Rebecca Clutten, instructed by Pinsent Masons LLP, for the Acquiring Authority

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The following cases are referred to in this decision:

Nofax Station Road Limited v London Borough of Barnet [2025] UKUT 241 (LC)

Purfleet Farms Limited v Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government, and the Regions [2002] ECWA Civ 1430