High-profile cases at the Royal Courts of Justice often attract hacks such as Obiter to the press bench, with lawyers representing the great and good perhaps preparing in advance a nice rhetorical flourish for the next day’s papers.
Other cases, not so much. Hence lawyerly surprise this week in a dry, but potentially significant, application for permission to appeal over a refusal to grant a costs-capping order.
Counsel and their instructing solicitors appeared astonished when Obiter sidled up to ask for documents at the Court of Appeal, apparently prompting a fellow legal hack to make a similar request.
One of m’learned friends incredulously asked his opposite number: ‘Goodness me, where’s the Daily Mail?’ Alas, Northcliffe House’s finest were rather less interested than the Gazette in the finer points of CPR 3.19…
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