ARKIN v BORCHARD LINES LTD AND OTHERS

[2005] 2 Lloyd's Rep. 187

COURT OF APPEAL

Before Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers MR, Lord Justice Brooke and Lord Justice Dyson

Practice - Costs - Professional funder - Whether funder should be ordered to pay costs of successful defendants. Practice - Costs - Part 20 proceedings - Defendants successfully defended claims in main action and recovered costs against claimant - Claimant impecunious and unlikely to be able to satisfy costs orders - Apportionment of costs as between defendants in main action and defendants in Part 20 proceedings.