Last week I attended the Association of Costs Lawyers’ London Regional Meeting. This consisted of a couple of interesting costs talks from some of the costs specialists at 12 King’s Bench Walk. One of these considered the question of whether QOCS protection applies to detailed assessment. 12KBW have kindly given me permission to reproduce the […]
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Today’s post is off-topic. Perhaps for that very reason it may be the most useful one you ever read on this blog. It is about will writing. Many wills leave certain specific legacies of fixed amounts of money to individuals or organisations (eg £1,000 to a grandchild or £500 to a charity). The residue (ie
Costs Lawyers would recently have been checking they had collected sufficient Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points for the previous practising year (currently 12 hours). The Costs Lawyer Standard Board (CLSB) website has very useful section setting out the CPD requirements and what activities earn CPD points. Part of this process includes setting training objectives at
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From 1 December 2022, the 152nd Practice Direction Update re-numbered a number of the Practice Directions to CPR 3. So far as costs are concerned: The old PD 3E – Costs management – is now PD 3D. The old PD 3F – Costs capping – is now PD 3E. References in Points of Dispute, Skeleton
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