Day: 9 February 2010
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Court of Appeal Legal Costs Judgments
You wait ages for an interesting legal costs decision from the Court of Appeal and then two come along together. Both cases concerned a similar issue as to the extent of a costs judge’s discretion to limit costs in a manner that appears to go beyond a strict reading of the final costs order. …
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Middleton v Vosper Thornecroft (UK) Ltd
I acted in a detailed assessment recently where the Claimant had failed to serve a statement of reasons in respect of the success fee in accordance with CPD 32.5(3) when serving the bill of costs and notice of commencement. The appropriate statement was subsequently served. It was argued for the Defendant that the failure to…