Legal Cost Specialists

2011 Guideline Hourly Rates

Readers will no doubt have noticed that the inside front cover of the Second Edition of Mark Friston’s Civil Costs: Law and Practice has guideline rates for the last few years. Where rates were not published in any given year, they have been extrapolated from other years. This applies to 2004 and 2011. Unfortunately, the footnote for 2011 has been omitted and as such it looks like the rates are published rates when in fact they are extrapolated.

I understand the following erratum slip will be inserted in future copies:

Erratum
The table inside the front cover should have the following footnote relating to the rates for 2011:

“These rates are extrapolated; in April 2011 the Master of the Rolls advised that 2010 rates should apply pending a review; that review has seemingly not taken place and as such it is arguable that extrapolated rates (i.e., those shown) should apply.”

4 thoughts on “2011 Guideline Hourly Rates”

  1. why bother?

    all defendants ignore nearly 2 years of work since the rates change in 2010; the recession and interest; the increased costs of cases being run; the effects of Moto; in blindly referring to the Guideline Rates for Summary Assessment, as an all singing, all dancing binding authority on all Courts on DA

    You could paint rates changes in 100 ft sky-writing and it wouldnt change them

  2. This blog post is useful but neither the original book nor the erratum slip actually specifies who undertook the extrapolation. It was, I suppose, Mark Friston – not Master Leonard.

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