The WLR Daily case summaries
[2025] WLR(D) 131
King’s Bench Division
BB and others v Khayyat and others
[2025] EWHC 443 (KB)
2025 Feb 19; 28
Soole J
Costs— Discretion of court— Qualified one-way costs shifting— Certain claimants serving notice of discontinuance against bank— Judge dismissing discontinuing claimants’ application to disapply presumptive costs order— Bank applying for interim payment on account of costs— Discontinuing claimants resisting interim costs order on basis court having discretion to grant them qualified one-way costs shifting protection against enforcement of costs orders— Whether discontinuing claimants bringing non-personal injury claims entitled to qualified one-way costs shifting protection on basis other claimants in proceedings bringing personal injury actions— Whether “the proceedings” comprising all claims of all claimants in action—
CPR
rr 44.13(1), 44.16(2)(b)