Medcalf v Mardell (Wasted Costs Order)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date2001
Year2001
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
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20 cases
  • Fisher Meredith LLP v JH, PH
    • United Kingdom
    • Family Division
    • March 2, 2012
    ...but in that situation it would of course have to give sustainable reasons for exercising its discretion against making an order." 36 In Medcalf v Mardell [2003] 1 AC 120, HL, Lord Bingham of Cornhill stated at para 23: "The court should not make an order against a practitioner precluded by ......
  • Halliwells LLP v NES Solicitors
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • February 23, 2011
    ... ... did not meet the "high threshold for an enforcement order." I do not agree. Even though the Defendant may have been ... by 15 December 2009 and made various orders for costs. Halliwells has taken no steps to enforce the judgment and ... ...
  • D v H
    • United Kingdom
    • Family Division
    • March 19, 2008
    ...or paid”. 23 The Court of Appeal decision on wasted costs in Ridehalgh v Horsefield (1994) Ch 205 was approved by the House of Lords in Medcalf v Mardell (2003) 1 AC 120. The Court of Appeal considered that an earlier case of In Re: A Barrister (Wasted Costs Order) (No. 1 of 1991) (1993) QB......
  • Woolaston (Leo Hugh) and Others v Aubrey George Brown and Others
    • Jamaica
    • Supreme Court (Jamaica)
    • July 1, 2008
    ...admissible at the trial. This common sense proposition has recently been re-emphasised by the Court of Appeal in Medcalf v Mardell [2001] Lloyd's Rep PN 146 . in which Peter Gibson LJ said, at paragraph 40: "The material evidence must be evidence which can be put before the court to make g......
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  • Contract Flash Points - Part 1 : Drafting Your Contract
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    • April 17, 2009
    ...for bad drafting. What do words mean? Queen Elizabeth's School Blackburn Ltd & ors v Banks Wilson Solicitors (A firm) [2001] (PNLR 14 CA) this concerned the following covenant: The Transferee will not construct any building on the Property, which shall be ..., greater in height than the......

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