Following a joint venture dispute trial with mixed success across multiple plaintiffs and defendants, the Court ordered the unsuccessful defendants to pay 75% of the successful plaintiffs' costs on the standard basis, excluding the wholly unsuccessful first plaintiff and the wholly successful second defendant from the costs order. The Court directed that no reduction in assessed costs should occur merely because work was also performed for the benefit of the unsuccessful first plaintiff, addressing the practical difficulty where a single firm represented all plaintiffs. The Court declined to draft orders addressing potential double recovery issues, instead granting liberty to apply if such issues arose.
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