A TV star and a brokerage have returned to the courtroom to finalise last month's high-profile case.

After winning its claim for damages against brokerage AJ Insurance earlier this year, The Sugar Hut Group Ltd, owned by reality TV star Mr Micheal Norcross known from The Only Way is Essex, has lost its right to claim certain costs from the case.

In an earlier judgement, the court supported Sugar Hut Group’s claims for business interruption losses following a fire, ruling that the claimants were entitled to recover damages including interest at the sum of £1,090,021 from the brokerage.

On the 10th November, the parties returned to the court to consider costs.

In these proceedings, the claimants submitted that the court should follow the general rule under CPR 44.2(2)(a) - the unsuccessful party be ordered to pay the successful party’s costs.

The defendants challenged that the claimants should be deprived of any costs 21 days after a CPR Pt 36 offer had been made on behalf of the defendant. Therefore, maintaining that the defendant should have its costs from that date - the 14th of June 2014.

The court ruled that although the claimants had been the successful party, Sugar Hut Group was denied all costs from 14th June and AJ Finance was entitled to its costs on a standard basis from that date.

Mr Justice Eder commented that his conclusion was not based on a "near-miss" analysis and therefore does not involve treading down a ‘dangerous path’.

“Nor does it involve any speculation about what negotiations might have taken place,” he said. “I have the benefit of "full information" as to the negotiations that took place as contained in the exchange of correspondence which has been made available.”