London Arbitration 13/96

Arbitration - Taxation of costs - Principles applicable to recoverability of costs in respect of salaried in - house lawyer

After the conclusion of an arbitration the tribunal made an interim award as to costs ordering that the respondent owners should bear their own and the claimant charterers’ costs of the reference, as well as the costs of the Award itself and those of the debate about the issue of liability for costs. Thereafter, the parties were unable to agree costs, and it fell to the tribunal to tax them on the basis of written submissions provided by the parties.