Legal Cost Specialists

March 2011

Jackson implementation

The recent lobbying by claimant organisations has paid-off as the Government has entirely abandoned plans to implement the Jackson costs reforms. Oh … sorry. I had pre-prepared two different posts in advance of the announcement yesterday to deal with either eventuality. Let’s start again. The recent lobbying by claimant organisations has been a complete waste […]

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New court fees

Court fees are due to increase from 4 April 2011.  In addition to increases across the board, are increases to the fees for detailed assessment: (a) does not exceed £15,000 – £325 (b) exceeds £15,000 but does not exceed £50,000 – £655 (c) exceeds £50,000 but does not exceed £100,000 – £980 (d) exceeds £100,000

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Costs Law forum

I recently mentioned access to the Members’ Forum as being one of the benefits of membership of the Association of Costs Lawyers. This is, for obvious reasons, available only to members. Some readers may recall the excellent open forum that there used to be on the Costs Monkey website. Unfortunately, this has been down for

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New Association of Costs Lawyers' Council member

I spent much of Saturday being carried aloft by crowds of cheering costs lawyers following my surprise election to the Association of Costs Lawyers’ Council. The election as a whole was a surprisingly close run thing, with the voting suggesting a fairly wide, and possibly relatively evenly balanced, range of views amongst the membership about

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