The Weekly Law Reports
[2022] 1 WLR 5140
Queen’s Bench Division
*ECU Group plc v HSBC Bank plc and others
[2022] EWHC 1616 (Comm)
2022 April 29; June 24
Moulder J
Costs— Discretion of court— Application against non-party— Successful party applying for non-party costs order against one of losing party’s commercial litigation funders— Whether funder’s costs liability to be limited to costs incurred after date of litigation funding agreement— Whether funder to be held jointly and severally liable with losing party— Whether funder’s costs liability to be reduced by amount of insurance taken out to cover adverse costs—
Senior Courts Act 1981 (c 54), s 51