Legal Cost Specialists
Very interesting webinar on AI in costs from Kings Chambers’ Andrew Hogan and Paul Hughes considering key issues arising out of the use of Artificial Intelligence in legal practice including: What are AI and LLMs. AI ethics. Regulatory concerns. ChatGPT and other open applications. Legal applications (briefly) AI’s application to costs The future of AI. […]
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Are you, and/or your firm, guilty of multiple criminal offences? Quite possibly. The decision in Mazur & Anor v Charles Russell Speechlys LLP [2025] EWHC 2341 (KB) has been described as an “earthquake” decision and may have a profound effect on the way that many firms operate in the future. Many firms/fee earners may have
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Webinar on personal injury costs from Kings Chambers Andrew Hogan and Craig Ralph, discussing current developments in hourly rates, deductions from damages, mediation and ADR, and other topics of interest.
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The new edition of the White Book was recently published. This year we purchased the online firmwide edition which comes bundled together with Volume 2. It is a number of years since I had seen Volume 2. This includes a section on costs and funding containing various reference resources such as: Conditional Fee Agreements Order
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What happens after an award of costs in a planning appeal? Costs webinar from Kings Chambers’ Andrew Hogan discussing how a claim for costs is formulated, how it is assessed, and how the court determines the amount of costs a paying party has to pay.
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There is stiff competition as to which part of the new(ish) rules concerning Fixed Recoverable Costs (FRC) have been most poorly drafted. Nevertheless, it would be difficult to find a more confusing set of provisions than those surrounding late acceptance of a defendant’s Part 36 offer. The problems stem from the way the basic rules
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The latest guideline hourly rates, increased in accordance with the Services Producer Price Index (SPPI), came into force from 1 January 2025. Grade Fee earner London 1 London 2 London 3 National 1 National 2 A Solicitors and legal executives with over 8 years’ experience £566 (£546) £413 (£398) £312 (£301) £288 (£278) £282 (£272) B Solicitors
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Congratulations to William Wyatt, one of the founding partners of Gibbs Wyatt Stone, for being awarded an MBE (Member of the British Empire) in the King’s New Year Honours List 2025. The award was made for services to disabled people. William has worked tirelessly for disabled people learning to swim, through his involvement in the Halliwick
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Costs webinar from Kings Chambers’ Andrew Hogan and Steven Turner reviewing the law, practice and procedure relating to non-party costs orders in the context of recent case law.
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The recent decision in Kapoor v Johal, Johal & Johal [2024] EWHC 2853 (SCCO), where a claim for costs was reduced from £258,583.78 to £0, has received a significant amount of attention, including in the Law Society Gazette, Solicitors Journal, Legal Futures, Civil Litigation Brief and Costs Lawyer Journal. I suspect that part of the interest
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