Sentence examples for claimant costs from inspiring English sources

But the thrust was against claimant costs.

Individual claimant costs to lodge equal pay and discrimination cases are now £250 plus an additional £950 to hear a case, prohibitive for all but the well-paid.

If they win, the defendants often have to pick up the claimants' costs, too.

Environmental legal challenges face being hit by the "chilling effect" of new government rules that remove a cap on claimants' costs, according to campaigners, lawyers and politicians.

Each new PIP claim – worth between £21 and £134 a week to disabled claimants – costs an average £182 to administer, compared with £49 under the disability living allowance, the report states.

Publishers would pay £3,500 to the arbitrator, up to £3,000 of the claimant's costs, the publisher's own costs, and then the value of any award against them should they lose.

It would mean that even if a paper won a legal action, successfully defending itself against a claim, it would have to pay the claimant's costs.

Guardian Newspapers' head of legal affairs, Siobháin Butterworth, says: 'No one objects to people having access to justice, but in my experience the claimant's costs can be 10 times the amount of damages he recovers from the libel.

"I still have to pinch myself that we live in a country in which the government's press regulator is financed by Max Mosley and that papers who refuse to sign up to it will not only face punitive damages in libel courts but could be forced to pay a claimant's costs even if the article concerned is entirely true and the paper wins its case.

Each new PIP claim - worth between £21 and £134 a week to disabled claimants - costs an average £182 to administer, compared to £49 under the disability living allowance, said the report.

They would also have to foot claimants' legal costs even where a newspaper was found not guilty of committing an offence.