The post-Jackson hardline approach to costs budgeting was reinforced by a landmark Court of Appeal decision today (27 November) in a clear message to the profession that non-compliance will be ‘fatal’.
This latest decision – the most significant of the post-Jackson era – arises out of Andrew Mitchell MP’s ongoing ‘plebgate’ defamation claim against The Sun’s publisher, News Group Newspapers (NGN). It follows the High Court ruling in September that Mitchell, were he to win the claim, would not be entitled to recoup any of his costs from NGN after his solicitors, Atkins Thomson, failed to comply with a costs practice direction.
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