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Leigh Day claims £105m costs for Trafigura litigation

While I hate CFAs and can't wait to see them abolished, I can't help feeling in this case it's justified. Trafigura's behaviour over the past years has been blatantly adversarial and combative. They have antagonised everyone involved: the media, the plaintiffs, Parliament. At least they assisted in making it harder to get super-injunctions. Weren't the Woolf reforms supposed to direct the parties' minds towards settlement--earlier than later? A lesson lost on the defendants.

19-May-2010

6:30 pm