Legal Cost Specialists

August 2022

Good reason to set aside Default Costs Certificate

Practice Directions do not have the same status as the Civil Procedure Rules themselves. Sometimes the Practice Directions are misleading. Sometimes they are simply wrong (eg KU (A Child) v LCC [2005] EWCA Civ 475). One example of the Practice Directions being misleading/wrong is in relation to the issue of setting aside a Default Costs […]

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Risky bet

Off-topic. I am currently reading the diaries of my late aunt that were written in the 1950s. Many of the entries relate to her husband visiting Wembley dog track and his relative success/failure in terms of the bets he placed. Entry from 18 February 1952: “Charles went dogging in the evening with unfortunate results.” If

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