BB v Khayyat

Subject Matter

COSTS — Discretion of court — Qualified one-way costs shifting — Certain claimants in multi-claimant action serving notice of discontinuance — Defendant seeking imterim payment on account of costs — Discontinuing claimants resisting interim costs order on basis court having discretion to grant qualified one-way costs shifting protection against enforcement of costs orders — Whether entitled to qualified one-way costs shifting protection on basis other claimants in same proceedings bringing personal injury actions — CPR rr 44.13(1), 44.16(2)(b)

[2025] EWHC 443 (KB); [2025] 4 WLR 40; [2025] WLR(D) 131, KBD