Arkin v Borchard Lines - Court of Appeal (Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers MR, Brooke & Dyson LJJ) - 26 May 2005

Practice - Costs - Professional funder - Whether funder should be ordered to pay costs of successful defendants - Apportionment of costs as between defendants in main action and defendants in Part 20 proceedings

The claimant alleged that his liner shipping company was put out of business as a result of the defendant Conference members abusing their dominant position and adopting predatory pricing policies. The claimant alleged that his company's collapse was caused by the defendants' breaches of articles 82 and 81 of the Treaty of Rome.