Plaintiffs awarded 75% of costs in false imprisonment proceedings

Application for costs - application for differential costs order - cross applications - Courts Act 1981 - plaintiffs seek full Circuit Court Costs on the basis that they were entirely successful - Court held that Plaintiffs were only partially successful - awarded 75% of the Circuit Court costs to include certificate for Senior Counsel - differential costs order refused - particular circumstances which amount to good reason for not making a differential costs order - first case where the question arose as to whether the defendants should be liable in false imprisonment as a result of a defective detention warrant - cases raised important and novel questions - reasonable for the plaintiffs to have maintained their proceedings in the High Court -