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Partisan expert evidence
  • 3 Jun 2011

    LAMMAS GLOBAL CORPORATION v. BARCLAYS BANK (SUISSE) S.A. AND OTHERS

    Citation
    LAMMAS GLOBAL CORPORATION v. BARCLAYS BANK (SUISSE) S.A. AND OTHERS
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCA2411/2009

    The court refused to award costs on a common fund or enhanced basis because the conduct complained of amounted to ordinary hostile litigation rather than deliberate misconduct provoking indignation; the omission in the ex parte application was not a deliberate concealment but a misappreciation of relevance; partisan expert evidence was rejected but that did not warrant enhanced costs. Consequently the order that Lammas pay Barclays Suisse costs on a party-and-party basis was made absolute, the order nisi in favour of Barclays plc is to be held over for three months pending the Swiss court's j…