costs draftsmen

I note a recruitment advertisement in Costs Lawyer magazine from Practico seeking senior costs lawyers who have “Costs Lawyer or higher professional qualifications”. Anyone fancy providing a hierarchy of legal qualifications?

I mentioned the other day receiving an email from the other side’s costs draftsman on 30th March 2012 reading: “Please can you provide an update on the current position of our clients cost cheque in relation to this matter? Costs were agreed on 23rd March in the amount of £7,000.00 on 14 day payment terms”.

Following on from the decision in Kynaston v Carroll [2011] EWHC 2179 there have been calls in certain circles for entity regulation of costs firms. Currently the Costs Lawyer Standards Board (CLSB) regulates only individual Costs Lawyers. There appear to be a number of arguments being put forward as to why this needs to be

Costs Lawyer magazine has unsurprisingly been devoting quite a lot of coverage and comment to the case of Kynaston v Carroll [2011] EWHC 2179 (click to read judgment). This concerned the thorny issue of rights of audience at detailed assessment hearings. The facts of the case, so far as relevant, are that an employee of

Why do we get the plural “Lawyers” in “Association of Costs Lawyers” but the singular “Lawyer” in “Costs Lawyer Standards Board? They don’t call it the “Solicitor Regulation Authority”. And surely there should be an apostrophe in there somewhere. Should it not be: “Costs Lawyers’ Standards Board”? This is the kind of stuff that keeps

Last year, much to my surprise (and no doubt the equal horror of many others), I was elected to the Council of the Association of Costs Lawyers. The experience has been a fascinating and informative one, in no small part due to the fact that during this period the Council has been going through a

Congratulations to Andrew Post and Alexander Hutton on their appointment as Queen’s Counsel. It appears that eligibility for QC status is limited to practising barristers or practising solicitors who hold higher court rights of audience. No scope for Costs Lawyers to apply. Something for the Costs Lawyer Standards Board to look into?

Some people are “glass half full” types.  Some people are “glass half empty” types. Some people are “who nicked my bloody glass” types.   Forget for the moment the other Jackson proposals and what impact they may have and just look at two forthcoming changes to the Costs Practice Direction: • An end to lengthy

Association of Costs Lawyers’ press release: The number of people choosing to train as a Costs Lawyer has almost doubled during 2011 as the impact of several major forces – including the Jackson reforms and the Legal Services Act – are felt in the costs sector. The Association of Costs Lawyers received 112 applications to