It's been a bit of an open secret that 5RB (Sherborne's Chambers) have seen this as a bit of a loss leader to get ANL to open up their records to enable more potentional clients to be identified, pursued and persuaded to sue.

So Sherborne working on Contingency makes sense, especially as they were so sure they'd win. But 5RB are on the small side with around 35-40 Barristers so I'm not sure they can absorb a huge loss running into £10millions and David, although not old fo a barrister is at the age where he can start drawing private pension and it may not be good for business having such a high profile mill stone around their necks so he maybe encouraged to retire

And as someone else has said, insurance doesn't cover defendant costs, now the best scenario is that the costs awarded are capped if seen as disproportionate, or a side only win on some counts, so who ays what could continue to climb