Costs shocks

The anticlimax of the House of Lords washing its hands of CFAs in dismissing the appeal in Callery v Gray was merely the lull before the storm. In Halloran v Delaney the Court of Appeal reduced the Callery 20% benchmark by 75% to 5%, while in the Claims Direct test cases the Senior Costs Judge held that no ATE insurance premium would generally be recoverable if paid after liability has been admitted.