Cheltenham, U.K.: “A businessman is facing a £300,000 legal bill after losing a boundary battle with his neighbour – over an area of land of just seven square yards.” About half of that represents the loser-pays bill that will be handed to Martin Charalambous and his partner for pursuing a legal campaign through appeal whose cost far exceeded the value of the land. [Daily Mail, Telegraph, This Is Gloucestershire]
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well, its ridiculous, but the beauty part is the guy pushing the frivolous suit now is paying.
My uncle, a retired farmer, once had to fend off a suite over small area of land that a homeowner claimed as his. It took a lot of money many years ago just to defend himself.
This case illustrates the near-perfection of the “loser pays” system.
A party pursued a trivial case to the bitter end, and the “punishment” is more than just.