Indemnity Costs - DSN v Blackpool Football Club
NielsF / CC BY-SA (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) Jane Lambert Queen's Bench Division (Mr Justice Griffiths) DSN v Blackpool Football Club Ltd [2020] EWHC 670 (QB) (20 March 2020) Paragraph 8 of the Practice Direction - Pre-Action Conduct and Protocols which I discussed in Practice Direction - Pre-Action Conduct and Protocols Update on 12 Oct 2019 advises: "Litigation should be a last resort. As part of a relevant pre-action protocol or this Practice Direction, the parties should consider whether negotiation or some other form of ADR might enable them to settle their dispute without commencing proceedings." Paragraph 9 adds that p arties should continue to consider the possibility of reaching a settlement at all times, including after proceedings have been started. Paragraph 10 lists the types of ADR that are available to litigants such as mediation, arbitration, early neutral evalu...