Costs
Harford v Music Store Professional UK/DV247 Ltd [2021] Lexis Citation 151
It was well established that where the Protocol for Low Value Personal Injury Claims (Employers Liability and Public Liability Claim (the EL/PL Protocol) should have been used, and its non-use was unreasonable, the provisions of CPR 44.4 requiring a judge to assess costs having regard to the conduct of the parties, provided ample scope for the judge assessing costs to allow only the fixed costs set out in the EL/PL Protocol. The SCCO so held in proceedings concerning a claim for damages brought by the claimant employee against the defendant employer following an accident at work. Accordingly, in accordance with the provisions of CPR 44.11, the court had the discretion to disallow all or part of the costs of the claim, and applied the fixed costs set out in CPR 45.18 Table 6A.
Family proceedings
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council v A mother and others [2021] Lexis Citation 153
The applicant local authority successfully applied to amend its threshold criteria to remove the allegation of inflicted injury concerning a ten-month-old
