The Weekly Law Reports
[1998] 1 WLR 1056
[COURT OF APPEAL]
HODGSON
and Others
v.
IMPERIAL TOBACCO LTD.
and Others
1998 Jan. 26;
Feb. 12
Feb. 12
Lord Woolf M.R., Aldous and Chadwick L.JJ.
Costs
— Order for costs
— Interlocutory application
— Solicitors and counsel acting for plaintiffs under conditional fee agreements
— Defendants indicating possibility of seeking costs from lawyers personally
— Plaintiffs seeking pre-emptive order barring application
— Whether appropriate
—
Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41), s. 58
Practice
— Chambers applications
— Confidentiality
— Directions in multi-party litigation given in chambers
— Parties and legal advisers ordered not to comment to media without leave of court
— Whether hearings in chambers confidential
— Whether order necessary to protect administration of justice
—
Administration of Justice Act 1960 (8 & 9 Eliz. 2, c. 65), s. 12
1058
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