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No costs for time spent on exaggerated claim

Held that a defendant who causes a court to spend time considering a deliberately exaggerated claim, for the purpose of gain, is not entitled to claim the relevant costs. This in a case of hand bruising, eventually settled for £2,500 but having generated costs of £96,000.

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