The WLR Daily case summaries
[2016] WLR (D) 195
Chancery Division
8 Representative Claimants and others v MGN Ltd
[2016] EWHC 855 (Ch)
2016 April 8; 19
Mann J
Costs— Conditional fee agreement— Additional liabilities scheme— Claimants successful in claims for infringement of privacy— Claimants seeking uplift of costs under conditional fee agreements and after the event insurance premiums— Whether scheme allowing for recovery of additional liabilities incompatible with defendant’s right to freedom of expression—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, art 10