No error of law in costs award to multiple defendants in failed planning challenge - News Summed Up

No error of law in costs award to multiple defendants in failed planning challenge


Supreme CourtPublished August 17, 2021CPRE Kent v Secretary of State for Communities and Local GovernmentBefore Lord Reed, Lord Hodge, Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lord Leggatt and Lord Burrows[2021] UKSC 36Judgment July 30, 2021The Court of Appeal had been entitled to hold that previous House of Lords guidance to the effect that the losing party in a planning appeal would not normally be required to pay more than one set of costs did not apply in statutory review cases where a claimant was refused permission to proceed on the papers. SponsoredGiven the Court of Appeal’s primary responsibility for matters concerning costs, and in the absence of any error of law, it was not for the Supreme Court to revisit an order that


Source: The Times August 16, 2021 22:52 UTC



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