UK case law
Richardson, R (On the Application Of) v North Yorkshire County Council
[2003] EWCA CIV 1921 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division) · 2003
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Full judgment
1. LORD JUSTICE SIMON BROWN: Appeals are an expensive and hazardous process. There can be no conceivable doubt but that the respondent council must have their costs. Stretching our consciences to the uttermost, we limit the costs in favour of the Secretary of State (who strictly might be thought entitled to the entirety of his costs too of contesting this separate issue) to three quarters of his costs, simply on the basis that he has in the event had some profit from the appeal: the law as to the reach of the code has been clarified, and clarified in the event in his interest. 2. We could not properly, in our unanimous judgment, make any order more generous towards the appellants. They must pay all but a quarter of the Secretary of State's costs. ______________________________