Final Jackson Costs Report published
The wait is over and the report has been published: Final Report (click link).
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January 2010
New bill of costs format
I previously commented (see post) on the possibility of a new bill of costs format emerging as a result of the Lord Justice Jackson’s Civil Litigation Costs Review. The Senior Courts Costs Office Costs Practitioners Group recent minutes (see link) provided an update: “Proposals for a new format for bills of costsAs a result of
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Responses to Jackson Costs Review
It is obvious how much work has been put in by Lord Justice Jackson and his team in relation to his preliminary report on his Review of Civil Litigation Costs and his forthcoming final report (due for publication on 14 January 2010). However, others have also put a lot of time and effort into this
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Jackson webinar
As the excitement about the publication of Lord Justice Jackson’s final report on his Review of Civil Litigation Costs builds to an uncontrollable frenzy, an event to place in your diary is a live webinar panel discussion on the key proposals in the report on the same day as publication (14 January 2010) over at
Legal costs and referral fees
The Law Society recently announced a change of policy with a call for the reintroduction of a ban on referral fees. The Legal Services Board said it will look at this issue as priority. The subject of referral fees is not, in theory, one directly related to legal costs but does seem to keep cropping
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Guideline Hourly Rates 2010
Will there be an increase in the Guideline Hourly Rates for 2010? The latest news is that the Master of the Rolls has decided to wait until after publication of Sir Rupert Jackson’s report of his review of Civil Litigation Costs before deciding whether to make any changes to the current Guideline Hourly Rates. That
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A worrying legal costs development
The decision in Crane v Canons Leisure [2007] EWCA Civ 1352 means that solicitors can outsource work but then charge for this work as though they had done it themselves (with a higher hourly rate than that paid to the agent) and claim a success fee on top. Therefore, in the case of detailed assessments,
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