The WLR Daily case summaries
[2015] WLR (D) 332
COSTS— Order for costs— Success fees and after the event insurance premiums— Costs regime in place between 1999 and 2013 allowing for recovery of same— — Noise nuisance claim by homeowners against operators of speedway track— — Claimants entering into conditional fee agreement with provision for success fees for counsel and solicitors, having also paid “after the event” insurance premium— — Defendants’ liability in costs far in excess of value of claim— — Whether requirement to pay claimant’s success fee and premium in addition to base costs in breach of defendants’ Convention rights to fair trial and to enjoyment of property— — Whether judge’s costs order to stand— — Courts and Legal Services Act 1990, s 58A(6)(7) (as inserted by Access to Justice Act 1999, s 27)— — Access to Justice Act 1999, s 29