The Court made consequential orders following an earlier order for further preliminary discovery, allowing the respondent until 18 August 2026 to comply, granting the applicants seven months thereafter to decide whether to commence substantive proceedings, and ordering the respondent to pay the applicants' costs of the motion on the ordinary basis. The Court declined to award indemnity costs from the date of a Calderbank-style offer because the applicants had not equalled or bettered the offer insofar as the date range was concerned. The costs of giving preliminary discovery were made costs in the cause if proceedings are commenced, but payable by the applicants on the ordinary basis if they elect not to proceed.
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