No order against receivers

Dolphin Quays Developments Ltd (in administrative and fixed charge receivership) v Mills and others [2007] EWHC 1180 (Ch)

The applicant applied for an order that the receivers should pay the costs of unsuccessful litigation that had been brought by the claimant company against him. He was a substantial creditor of the claimant company’s parent company, and contended that the receivers were the real parties to the unsuccessful litigation who had conducted the litigation for their benefit and the benefit of the Royal Bank of Scotland, which had appointed them.