The WLR Daily case summaries
[2025] WLR(D) 352
King’s Bench Division
Ward v Rai
[2025] EWHC 1681 (KB)
2025 June 18; July 3
Hill J sitting with costs judge Leonard
Costs— Detailed assessment— Appeal— Defendant serving points of dispute including challenge to items on receiving party’s bill relating to document review— Defendant indicating annotated schedule to follow— Claimant’s replies noting point of dispute too vague to enable meaningful response— Defendant supplying schedule two working days before hearing— Claimant applying to strike out point of dispute and schedule— Costs judge refusing to strike out point of dispute and adjourning detailed assessment of point of dispute with costs of adjournment to be ordered at later date— Whether judge adopting erroneous approach— Whether point of dispute to be dismissed— Whether schedule to be disallowed—
CPR
rr 47.6, 47.9, 47.13, PD 47, paras 8.2, 13.10