Langer v McKeown

Subject Matter

COSTS — Discretion of court — Offer of settlement — Split trial of unfair prejudice petition ordered with liability trial to precede valuation — Petitioner succeeding on liability and applying for costs of liability trial — Judge not taking account of without prejudice offer and awarding petitioner costs of liability trial — Whether judge erring in failing to defer ruling on costs until after valuation trial — CPR Pt 36, r 44.2

[2021] EWCA Civ 1792; [2022] 1 WLR 1255; [2022] 1 BCLC 471; [2021] WLR(D) 602, CA

COSTS — Discretion of court — Offer of settlement

[2021] EWHC 451 (Ch), Ch D

Appellate History