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17 February 2017
Issue: 7734 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Costs

Sharp v Leeds City Council [2017] EWCA Civ 33, [2017] All ER (D) 41 (Feb)

The Court of Appeal held that the regime for fixed costs provided by s IIIA of CPR 45 for claims which had been started, but no longer continued, under the pre-action protocol for low value personal injury (employers’ liability and public liability) applied to the costs of an application under s 52 of County Courts Act 1984 for pre-action disclosure in connection with such a claim.

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