Legal Cost Specialists
The Gazette (click link) reports that the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) has walked out of talks on extending fixed costs in personal injury cases. This mediation was put together at the request of Lord Justice Jackson as part of his Costs Review. It seems inevitable that his final report will include a recommendation […]
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The Claims for you (a trading name of Wixted & Co solicitors) website claims that they succeed in 98% of their accident claims. If true, this is an impressive success rate. However it does raise a number of issues: 1. Is this success rate not a reflection of the quality of the lawyers who work
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Lord Justice Jackson’s Preliminary Report on Civil Litigation Costs focuses on the perceived problems that have arisen in recent years in relation to legal costs: “There is no doubt that litigation over costs has increased dramatically in recent years, and that this growth is one of the driving factors behind the present review. Whilst many
Jackson Costs Review – Part 7 – A shrinking role for costs draftsmen? Read More »
One of the more niche topics that Lord Justice Jackson’s Costs Review is examining is e-disclosure. This is a specialist area and I do not propose to comment on the issues and problems that arise. Rather, I would suggest that those readers who are interested in this topic visit The e-Disclosure Information Project website where
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My sources in the legal costs world inform me of the forthcoming publication of a new book on the subject of legal costs. This news may not immediately set the pulse racing, especially when I tell you that I am not the author. However, this book promises to be different from the established titles on
A new bible for the legal costs world? Read More »
The New Law Journal has just relaunched their website (and very nice it is too). They have a section devoted to legal costs (click link). Also available are some of the excellent costs articles from the costs team at Kings Chambers although the indexing could possibly do with a bit more work (why does the
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Here we are in the middle of August and you find that the rest of the office is away on holiday and it’s too wet to go outside to play. To help pass the time why not play Clay Cost Muppet Shooting (external link) courtesy of Box Legal? Apparently, no cost muppets were harmed or
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Negotiating settlement of legal costs can be difficult at the best of times. However, the last thing one wants at the end of a difficult negotiation is to discover that there has been no settlement at all or, at least, not on the terms that you thought. In the case of Amer v London Borough
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Under the, now revoked, CFA Regulations 2000 there was a duty to advise a client whether the legal representative considered that the client was insured under an existing contract of insurance (BTE) before the CFA was entered into (Regulation 4(2)(c)). Failure to do this would render the CFA invalid. Since the Court of Appeal decision
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At the end of July I attended the last of Jackson LJ’s Costs Review Seminars. This seminar focused on detailed assessments and explored various ways to try to improve the process. The majority of those attending were costs draftsmen, costs judges and other costs professionals. What was interesting was the way that some of the
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