The impact of After the Event Insurance on Security for Costs applications

In the recent case of Geophysical Service Centre Company Ltd v Dowell Schlumberger (Middle East) Inc. ([2013] EWHC147 (TCC)) the defendant applied for security for costs. The defendant said they had sufficient evidence that the claimant would not be able to pay an adverse costs order. For a security for costs application to be successful in England, the conditions set out in Ci…