The Weekly Law Reports
[2001] 1 WLR 2112
Court of Appeal
Callery
v
Gray
Russell
v
Pal Pak Corrugated Ltd
[2001] EWCA Civ 1117
2001 June 5,
6,
7;
July 17
July 17
Lord Woolf CJ, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers MR and Brooke LJ
Costs
— Order for costs
— Personal injury claims
— Claimants seeking damages for minor injuries suffered in road traffic accidents
— Solicitors instructed under conditional fee agreements with success fees
— Claimants taking out insurance covering risk of liability to pay defendants' costs
— Claims settled without issue of proceedings
— Defendants agreeing to pay reasonable costs
— Whether success fee and insurance premium recoverable
— Whether amount of success fee reasonable
—
Access to Justice Act 1999 (c 22), s. 29
—
CPR
r 44.12A