Ward v Rai

Subject Matter

COSTS — Detailed assessment — Appeal — Defendant serving points of dispute including challenge to items on receiving party’s bill relating to document review — Defendant indicating annotated schedule to follow — Claimant’s replies noting point of dispute too vague to enable meaningful response — Defendant supplying schedule two working days before hearing — Claimant applying to strike out point of dispute and schedule — Costs judge refusing to strike out point of dispute and adjourning detailed assessment of point of dispute with costs of adjournment to be ordered at later date — Whether judge adopting erroneous approach — Whether point of dispute to be struck out — Whether schedule to be disallowed — CPR rr 47.6, 47.9, 47.13, PD 47, paras 8.2, 13.10

[2025] EWHC 1681 (KB); [2025] 4 WLR 80; [2025] WLR(D) 352, KBD