Goknur Gida Maddeleri Enerji Imalet Ithalat Ihracat Tiracet ve Sanayi AS v Aytacli

Subject Matter

COSTS — Discretion of court — Application against non-party — Director of insolvent company controlling and funding company’s unsuccessful litigation — Whether director personally liable for company’s costs liabilities — Whether necessary to establish director benefitting personally or acting in bad faith or improperly — Whether bad faith or impropriety having insignificant effect on applicant’s incurred costs on its own capable of justifying order — Senior Courts Act 1981 (c 54), s 51

[2021] EWCA Civ 1037; [2021] 4 WLR 101; [2022] 3 All ER 1105; [2022] 2 All ER (Comm) 205; [2021] 2 BCLC 702; [2021] WLR(D) 386, CA

Appellate History