Truscott v Truscott ; Wraith v Sheffield Forgemasters Ltd
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Court | Queen's Bench Division |
| Judgment Date | 20 February 1996 |
| Date | 20 February 1996 |
Wraith
and
Sheffield Forgemasters Ltd
Queen's Bench Division
Costs - taxation - reasonable choice of solicitors
Reasonable choice of solicitor
In assessing costs, a taxing master should decide whether the choice of solicitor was reasonable having regard to the extent and importance of the litigation.
Mr Justice Potter, sitting with assessors in the Queen's Bench Division, so held on January 31, in refusing the application of Sheffield Forgemasters Ltd for costs taxed on November 17, 1995 by...
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11 cases
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Fuseon Ltd v Senior Courts Costs Office
...decision of the justices' clerk has to be quashed in this case. …” 34 Wraith v Sheffield Forgemasters Ltd and Truscott v Truscott [1996] 1 WLR 617 were conjoined costs appeals. W, who was injured in an industrial accident in Sheffield, relied on his trade union to handle his claim for compe......
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R (Allseas Group SA) v Paul Sultana
...Magistrates Court Ex p. Power City Stores Ltd (1990) 154 J.P. 654; Wraith v Sheffield Forgemasters Ltd and Truscott v Truscott [1996] 1 WLR 617; McEwan v National Taxing Team [2014] EWHC 2308 (Admin); Kazakhstan Kagazy Plc v Zhunus [2015] EWHC 404 (Comm); Evans v Serious Fraud Office [2015]......
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AB (a protected party by his mother and litigation friend YZ) v Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
...was set out in Wraith v Sheffield Forgemasters Ltd [1998] 1 WLR 132 which approved the dicta by Potter J. set out and reported at [1996] 1 WLR 617 at 624–625. The focus is primarily upon the reasonable interests of the claimant so one looks to see whether a reasonable choice or decision ha......
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Truscott v Truscott ; Wraith v Sheffield Forgemasters Ltd
...it is necessary to go. LORD JUSTICE WAITE 45 I agree. LORD JUSTICE AULD 46 I also agree. 47 Order: Appeals allowed. In the case of Truscott v TruscottSimpsons Motor Sales (London) Ltd v Hendon Corporation (no2) (1965) 1 WLR 112, a case about fees for leading counsel, Pennycuick J said in re......
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