Read the full judgment text of on BabelCite. was delivered on 1 May 1997.
1. The reason why I made the order nisi that the 2nd Defendant should pay to the Plaintiff half the Plaintiff's costs of the action was because the Plaintiff succeeded only against the 2nd Defendant, not against the 1st Defendant. I therefore treated half the Plaintiff's costs as having been incurred in the action against the 2nd Defendant which succeeded, and half as having been incurred in the action against the 1st Defendant which failed. Mr. Clough has persuaded me that that provisional view