Former Independent News and Media chief executive Robert Pitt has been awarded only some of his costs arising from ex-chairman Leslie Buckley’s failed bid to have High Court inspectors removed from the company. Pitt, a notice party to the challenge, argued his participation in the revocation proceedings was necessary and reasonable to protect his good name and position. It wsa Pitt’s protected disclosures about Buckley and INM that ultimately led to the appointment of High Court inspectors to investigate the alleged data hacking of journalists, barristers and former staff at the media group in 2014. Last February, Justice Garett Simons…