Legal Cost Specialists

October 2012

Defining "disease" for the purposes of fixed success fees

Legal costs is a funny old game. Fixed success fees for employers’ liability claims were introduced on 1 October 2004. Fixed success fees for employers’ liability disease claims were introduced on 1 October 2005. Recoverability of success fees between the parties will end in April 2013 (although not retrospectively). Only now, with the end in […]

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Costs budgeting

I had a very enjoyable morning last week in Derby giving a training session to Geldards solicitors on the practicalities of costs budgeting. Costs budgeting is, of course, expected to become the norm for multi-track matters come April 2013. (Geldards is a firm that has lucked out having Nicola Mallen has a professional support lawyer.

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