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Costs Law Reports is the one authoritative source of costs law reporting. It includes important criminal decisions of Costs Judges, many of which are not available elsewhere. Cases in this issue: SC DG Petrol SRL v Vitol Broking Ltd and Others; Dinsdale Moorland Services Ltd v Evans and Others; MA Lloyd & Sons Ltd (t/a KPM Marine) v PPC International Ltd (t/a Professional Powercraft); Stone Rowe Brewer LLP v Just Costs Ltd; Newland Shipping & Forwarding Ltd v Toba Trading FZC and Others; Governor & Company of The Bank of Ireland and Another v Philip Pank Partnership; Lakatamia Shipping Co Ltd v Su and Others; Blankley v Central Manchester and Manchester Children's University Hospitals NHS Trust; Mount Eden Land Ltd v Speechly Bircham LLP; Chartwell Estate Agents Ltd v Fergies Properties SA and Another; Summit Navigation Ltd and Others v Generali Romania Asigurare Reasigurare SA and Another; and R v Nettleton and Others. The main topic covered in this issue's cases, following the decision in Mitchell v NGN, is relief from sanctions.Other issues raised: capacity, conditional fee agreement, conduct, contract, costs budgeting, definition of trial, delay, detailed assessment, disclosure, enforceability, extensions of time, the one-fifth rule, proportionality, recovery of overpayments, retainers, security for costs, statements of truth, stay of proceedings, strike-out, unless orders, and witness statements. |