Patrick McKillen ordered to pay costs over hotel dispute Mr McKillen was also refused permission to appeal the decision in London's High Court in favour of Sir David and Sir Frederick's acquisition of shares in the hotels. It is estimated costs in the case could run to £20m. The decision on costs comes a month after Mr Justice Richards ruled Sir David and Sir Frederick had not breached any of Mr McKillen's pre-emption rights when building a stake in Coroin, the parent of the £1bn Maybourne hotel group - the owner of Claridge's, The Connaught and the Berkeley. The dispute centred on actions taken by Sir David and Sir Frederick, owners of Telegraph Media Group - parent company of The Daily Telegraph - in first buying equity stakes in Coroin and then acquiring £660m of the hotel company's debt last year from Ireland's National Asset Management Agency. Mr McKillen alleged his pre-emption rights over the shares were not respected and he was frozen out of the deals contrary to shareholder agreements drawn up when the hotels were acquired. However, the judge found Sir David and Sir Frederick had acted lawfully and properly in their dealings concerning Maybourne. He found that Mr McKillen's shareholder rights were not prejudiced and there was no conspiracy of any kind against Mr McKillen.