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Unsuccessful beauty parade funders cautioned against returning to ‘lion’s den’ to recover costs
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Melissa Gladstone and Brock Elder-Gunthorpe of Herbert Smith Freehills caution funders against returning to the ‘lion’s den’ to recover their costs following a failed carriage dispute, sharing that the Australian Federal Court has ruled that “there is nothing unjust in funders wearing costs expended in their own pursuit of a commercial gain”.