What is the appropriate order for costs following the continuation of a freezing injunction after a contested return date hearing? Is it the usual order for interim injunctions of costs reserved, or do costs follow the event because freezing injunctions are materially different to normal interim injunctions? These are questions which have caused debate on the authorities.

In the recent decision of the High Court in Cancrie Investments v. Haider, George Hayman KC and Duncan McCombe successfully argued that it should be the latter. The costs judgment here includes a full analysis of the latest authorities on the subject.

George and Duncan are instructed by Fraser Mitchell and Ben Smith of Lewis Silkin.