The High Court has rejected a claimant committee’s attempt to end its arrangements with Pogust Goodhead in the Mariana Dam litigation, according to reports from *Law Gazette* and *Law360*. The reports say Mr Justice Waksman found the committee did not have authority to terminate the collective conditional-fee and litigation-management agreements, or to instruct Bailey Glasser International instead.
The ruling means Pogust Goodhead remains on the record as instructing solicitors. *Law Gazette* reports that £300,000 was ordered on account of costs and that permission to appeal was refused. The Law360 report is subscription-gated; its headline and accessible introduction independently report the control decision. The October 2026 oral judgment was not located directly for this review, so these details are attributed to the published legal-news reports.
This is a material group-action governance and representation update. It does not establish a wider litigation-talent trend or signal a hiring change at any firm. The relevance is case-specific: authority to instruct, representation and costs can become central questions alongside the underlying merits in collective litigation.