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7 thoughts on “Cost of preparing trial bundle”
Without actually tackling whether it is fee earner work, it is worth noting two things:
(1) Guidance notes are not the law
and
(2) PTR says: Preparation of updated costs budgets and reviewing opponent’s budget – The point being that accuracy of the notes is debatable
Iliffe & Feltham. Potential costs penalties for not spending time getting the trial bundle right! Whilst the copying and perhaps paginating is not recoverable, the rest of the very important work is.
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2015/715.html
Answer = ‘Preparing’ vs ‘Assembling/Copying’.
This has been in my PoDs since the week those Guidance Notes came out. Unfortunately, the Court don’t take a blind bit of notice at provisional assessment, so it doesn’t matter.
In addition to time for deciding what to put into the trial bundle fee earner work also includes checking and, if necessary correcting and updating the trial bundle. It is essential to make sure that pages are all in the right order, correctly numbered and copied clearly?
Manchester CC RCJ has just confirmed in an assessment, that paginating and preparing bundles, is NOT fee earner work
If an Applicant in Financial Remedy Proceedings is unrepresented and the Repondent’s Solicitors prepare the Bundle, can the costs be reciovered from the Applicant?