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High Court Hands Down Judgment Following Second Dieselgate Costs Management Hearing
15th September 2025
On 10 September 2025 the High Court (Mrs Justice Cockerill sitting with Senior Costs Judge Rowley) handed down judgment in Various Claimants v Mercedes-Benz Group AG and Others [2025] EWHC 2307 (KB) following a costs management hearing which took place in July 2025.
The judgment sets the costs budgets for the next phase of the Pan-NOx group litigation, one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases of 2025.
39 Essex Chambers’ barristers Nicola Greaney KC acted for Ford, Shaman Kapoor acted for Nissan, and Judith Ayling KC and Daniel Laking acted for Jaguar Land Rover.
The judgment can be found below.











