18 October 2018
Costs
Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis v Brown; Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police v Brown (Equality and Human Rights Commission intervening) [2018] EWHC 2502 (QB), [2018] All ER (D) 50 (Oct)
The successful appellants were awarded a costs order as the ordinary rule prevailed. The Queen’s Bench Division summarily assessed the appellants’ costs of the appeal at £22,000 and gave permission to enforce, by way of set off, against cost orders from the trial and in the respondent’s favour.
Employment
Bellman (a protected party by his litigation friend) v Northampton Recruitment Ltd [2018] EWCA Civ 2214, [2018] All ER (D) 54 (Oct)
In an assault by a managing director on an employee of the company at an out of hours drinking session, the Court of Appeal, Civil Division, held that although the drinking session was not a seamless event with the work’s Christmas party, there was sufficient connection between the managing director’s field of activity and his wrongful conduct to make it right that the defendant be held vicariously liable.
