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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The recent decision of Costs Judge James in Kapoor v Johal, Johal & Johal [2024] EWHC 2853 (SCCO) is a relatively rare example of the Court not only exercising its powers under CPR 44.11, but this resulting in a complete disallowance of all costs claimed within the Bill of Costs. The £258,583.78 Bill was assessed
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Interesting costs webinar from Gatehouse Chambers’ Costs and Litigation Funding Team examining the Consumer Rights Act 2015 in light of the recent decision in Glaser v Atay [2024] EWCA Civ 1111. That case determined that the Direct Access barristers’ terms did not comply with the Consumer Rights Act 2015 and that the contract was unenforceable. The barristers were not
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In Oakwood Solicitors Ltd v Menzies [2024] UKSC 34 the Supreme Court overturned the Court of Appeal’s earlier decision. In essence, it is not sufficient to have a retainer that allows for costs to be deducted from damages and for a final bill to be sent to the client at the conclusion of the case.
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This blog has looked many times at the drafting error in The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023 concerning the transitional provisions and Fixed Recoverable Costs. These state that the new rules “only apply to a claim where proceedings are issued on or after 1st October 2023”. This is despite the fact they are clearly
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The Practice Direction on Administrative Court Bundle Guidance explains how PDF bundles should be numbered: “All bundles must be paginated in ascending order from start to finish. The first page of the PDF will be numbered “1”, and so on. (Any original page numbers of documents within the bundle are to be ignored.) Index pages
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“In general, there is an expectation that the first draft of a witness statement can be undertaken by lower grade fee earners including Grade C solicitors and legal executives (and those with similar experience). This is particularly so since witness statements should, in general, be drafted in the witness’ own words. Whether and the extent
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