CCC v Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Subject Matter

COSTS — Order for costs — Offer to settle — Claimant’s offer to settle clinical negligence claim comprising lump sum and periodical payments order — Defendant not accepting offer — Claimant obtaining judgment comprising lump sum and periodical payments order — Whether judgment “at least as advantageous” to claimant as offer — Whether both lump sum and periodical payments order required to be “better in money terms” in judgment than in offer — CPR r 36.17(2)

[2023] EWHC 1905 (KB); [2024] 1 WLR 1307; [2023] WLR(D) 327, KBD