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PI Practitioner, September 2012

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Costs consequences of fraudulent or exaggerated claims

Ul-Haq & Others v Shah [2009] EWCA Civ 542, CA

In this case the Court of the Appeal considered the question whether the genuine part of a claimant's claim could be struck out by reason collateral dishonesty. Delivering the leading judgement, Smith LJ noted that "[the judge] can mark his disapproval of the way in which the court's time and the parties' money has been wasted by an order for costs".

Costs awards are likely to have a powerful effect in cases involving...

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