The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has announced its intention to implement Sir Rupert Jackson’s proposals for extending fixed recoverable costs to most cases worth up to £100,000. However, rather than introducing a new intermediate track for cases worth £25,000 to £100,000, as Sir Rupert had suggested, it proposes extending the fast-track to claims worth up […]
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A new pilot scheme starts on 1 April 2019 for a new Statement of Costs for Summary Assessment. The pilot: Will run from 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2021. Applies to all claims, regardless of when “commenced” (presumably meaning when issued), that are subject to summary assessment. The two new forms that have been
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I recently looked at the case of Beardmore v Lancashire County Council where the court allowed recovery of medical agency fees (limited to £30 in addition to the direct costs) for obtaining medical records in an EL/PL Portal claim. These records were presumably obtained by the medial agency from the GP/hospital under the Data Protection (Subject
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In Beardmore v Lancashire County Council (County Court at Liverpool, 1/2/19), His Honour Judge Graham Wood QC allowed the claimant to recover medical agency fees incurred in obtaining medical records in an EL/PL Portal claim despite the fact there is no express allowance for this in the CPR, unlike the RTA Portal rules. A medical agency
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