A firm of solicitors is prepared to accept instructions to act in an RTA claim where the claimant has the benefit of BTE insurance and where the BTE policy will pay the solicitors an hourly rate of £130 across the board, including work done by Grade A fee earners. The limit of the BTE indemnity […]
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The Costs Law Articles Archive section of Legal Costs Central has been updated with an article previously published in Solicitors Joournal on whether the Jackson reforms are really too insurer friendly.
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When the Court of Appeal handed down judgment, on 12 October 2011, in Motto & Others v Trafigura [2011] EWCA Civ 1150, ruling that funding costs are not recoverable, I raised the question as to how long we would have to wait before bills of costs stopped claiming for such work? I’m afraid I can’t
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Another recent tweet from APIL (on 8 August 2012): “Prof Löfstedt wrote in his recent report that no evidence has been presented of a compensation culture – it’s a myth, not reality.” Again, sadly APIL provided no link to this report and it is therefore not entirely clear which one they are referring to. However,
I haven’t been using Twitter much recently, but popped back the other day to see if anything interesting had been posted. Although conventional tweets only allow for a limited number of characters per post (tweet), it is possible to insert short links to other parts of the internet to point readers in the direction of
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David Marshall, writing in Solicitors Journal, on the recent announcement by the Court of Appeal that general damages will be increased by 10% and the fact the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 itself had not included provision for this: “This absence was raised in parliamentary debate. Ministers held to the line
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Interesting Court of Appeal judgment in Hawksford Trustees Jersey Ltd v Stella Global UK Ltd & Anor [2012] EWCA Civ 987. Main issue concerned a claimant who had been unable to obtain ATE cover prior to the original trial. He was successful at trial and the Defendant appealed. At this stage the Claimant managed to
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The other day I posted a link to a website showing some case summaries of various first instance decisions. One angry reader commented: “I’m surprised this is publicised on the blog as useful case summaries – will we now all be submitting every DJ decision and taking it as Gospel?” I see no reason to
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I mentioned the other day some of the anomalies thrown up by the Court of Appeal’s recent judgment that general damages should be increased by 10% where judgment is given after 1 April 2013. Kerry Underwood has now drafted a comprehensive, and masterful, analysis of some of the problem issues and this can be read
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The website of barrister Sarah Robson contains some useful costs related case summaries, particularly in relation to RTA Portal claims: http://www.sarahrobsonbarrister.co.uk/Reported-Cases.html. Click image to enlarge: www.qccartoon.com
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