Coventry v Lawrence - Supreme Court decides by majority that pre-Jackson costs regime did not infringe ECHR (22 July 2015)

In Coventry and others v Lawrence and another [2015] UKSC 50, the Supreme Court considered whether parts of the costs regime introduced by the Access to Justice Act 1999 (now repealed and replaced by LASPO 2012) in particular, a claimant’s right to recover any success fee and ATE premium from an unsuccessful defendant, infringed Article 6 of the ECHR and/or Article 1 of the First Protocol to the Convention.