Hearings
19 Apr 2016 [2016] EWHC 855 (Ch); [2016] WLR (D) 195; [2016] 3 Costs LO 413 , Ch D (Mann J)
26 Oct 2016 Permission to appeal to Supreme Court given
8 Representative Claimants v MGN Ltd
See also
Subject Matter
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
[2016] EWHC 855 (Ch); [2016] WLR (D) 195; [2016] 3 Costs LO 413 , Ch D
Appellate History
8 Representative Claimants v MGN Ltd [2016] EWHC 855 (Ch); [2016] WLR (D) 195; [2016] 3 Costs LO 413 , Ch D
Decision of Mann J affirmed
Flood v Times Newspapers Ltd (No 2) [2017] UKSC 33; [2017] 1 WLR 1415; [2017] 4 All ER 733; [2017] WLR (D) 273; Case details, SC(E)