KINGTSON, Jamaica — The Court of Appeal has ruled that William ‘Bill’ Clarke, the former head of Scotia Jamaica and his ex-employee should each stand their own legal costs in both the Supreme and appellate courts.

Clarke and Scotia had been going at each other ever since his abrupt separation, in November 2008, from the company that he led for 13 years. He had served the company for a total of 40 years.

Both parties are believed to have racked up huge legal fees in their long, public fuss over a severance package, which has been remitted to arbitration after going through the courts; a house he lived in as head of Scotia Jamaica; and a row over a BMW and a related £41,181 in an account.

The parties had made submission to the Court of Appeal in an effort to get the other to stand the legal costs.

But the court said in a recent ruling that it didn’t believe “that in the circumstances of this case that either party should obtain all of its costs in this court, and in the court below”.

“It seems therefore, that in the interests of the parties and in the interests of justice and in all the circumstances, that each party should bear its own costs both in this court and in the court below,” read a section of the judgement posted on the website of the Court of Appeal.