Majuro Costs Ruling – Indemnity And Third Party Costs Orders

The Court recently set out an interesting ruling on costs relating to an application for indemnity costs and a third party costs order. The First Defendant (the "Defendant") applied to have the Plaintiff and any third parties who may have caused, controlled or funded the Plaintiff's claim, pay the Defendant's costs on an indemnity basis and an order for the third party funder to be liable for costs. In the present case, the Plaintiff had commenced a derivative claim against the Defendant in January 2015 but the Ex Parte Order granted on 21 January 2015 for injunctive relief and leave to serve out of the jurisdiction (the "Ex Parte Order") was subsequently set aside in the Chief Justice's ruling on 4 December 2015. In this ruling, the Judge held that the Plaintiff lacked standing to commence a derivative claim as the Plaintiff was not the registered shareholder and had failed to establish that there was a serious issue to be tried against the anchor defendant company as