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Court dismisses claim for proportional cost division when individual expenses in joint litigation are unknown.

Case Number 061997
Court / Authority
Jurisdiction Portugal (PT)
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Outcome Dismissed
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The court dismissed the claimant's request for proportional division of litigation costs in a joint action. The plaintiff argued that without knowing individual expenses, a fair apportionment was impossible, yet the court found no legal basis to deviate from the standard lump-sum allocation. Consequently, the claim was rejected because the inability to trace specific expenditures does not justify altering the statutory cost distribution method.

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litigation costs allocation joint action expenses proportional division lump sum costs unknown individual expenses costs in globo procedural allocation

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Código de Processo Civil, Art. 279

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[Nº CONVENCIONAL] JSTJ00002478

[Nº DO DOCUMENTO] SJ196806280619971

[PRIVACIDADE] 1

[REFERENCIA DE PUBLICACAO] BMJ N178 ANO1968 PAG179

[TEXTO INTEGRAL] N

[URL] https://www.dgsi.pt/jstj.nsf/954f0ce6ad9dd8b980256b5f003fa814/CD3C71759151F611802568FC003956A5?OpenDocument

SUMÁRIO

Quando numa acção ha litigantes agrupados, com despesas comuns sem que se saiba o que por cada um foi dispendido, e impossivel proceder a divisão proporcional das custas da parte que, por isso, terão de ser indicadas na conta em globo.