News / Legals costs mount as PD Ports wins legal fight over Tees access

PD Ports' Teesport. Photograph: Stuart Boulton.

British taxpayers could be facing a bill of more than £4m ($5m) in legal costs after the High Court ruled that publicly funded Teesside regeneration body South Tees Development (STDC) had sought to hold PD Ports to “ransom” over access rights.

Justice Eason Rajah, who has described STDC’s three-year legal battle to block PD Ports’ access to the 2,500-acre former steelworks it was regenerating as “simply wrong”, yesterday said “the defendant is clearly the successful party” and ...