News & Publications: April 2017
The recovery of costs in small claims cases
April 21st, 2017
CPR rule 27.14 deals with the recovery of costs on the small claims track. The starting point is that the court may not make an order for costs, except for fixed costs and court fees, unless the opposing party has behaved unreasonably. The question of what constitutes unreasonableness, therefore, arises fairly often in small claims […]