In complex litigation involving voluminous material, the Costs Court rather than the Court of Appeal is the appropriate forum for determining gross costs applications under r 63.07(2)(d). Non-parties against whom non-party costs orders are foreshadowed have a sufficient interest to be granted leave to intervene in costs applications without being required to bear their own costs of intervention as a condition of leave.
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