A defendant seeking costs against a non-party director of an insolvent plaintiff company must either apply for security for costs at an appropriate time or give timely warning of an intention to seek non-party costs; failure to do either is a weighty consideration that may be decisive against the application, even where the non-party managed and partially financed the litigation and had a shareholder interest.
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