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Costs orders concerning substitution of parties upheld
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Supreme Court: (a) grants an appellant the costs of his appeal, on the grounds that he had been successful in arguing that he was entitled to continue litigation as assignee of the action from the original plaintiff; but (b) refuses to vary the costs orders made in the High Court in respect of two unsuccessful applications to substitute parties, where they were an attempt to circumvent the rule on companies being represented by their officers.
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