Legal Cost Specialists
The Law Society Model Conditional Fee Agreement contains the following clause: “It may be that your opponent makes a formal offer to settle your claim which you reject on our advice, and your claim for damages goes ahead to trial where you recover damages that are less than that offer. If this happens, we will […]
Part 36 clauses in CFAs Read More »
I’ve uploaded an old article from September 2009 that made predictions on the future of the legal costs industry in light of the Preliminary Report from Lord Justice Jackson. How many of these predictions were accurate? First published in the Solicitors Journal.
Future of the legal costs industry Read More »
I’ve uploaded an old article from April 2011 that originally appeared Litigation Funding magazine. This was written in response to research commissioned by the National Accident Helpline that formed part of their response to the original Jackson consultation process. At the time, an article based on this report appeared in the Law Society Gazette, written
Why are legal costs so high? Read More »
The case of Allen v Brethertons LLP [2019] EWHC B3 (Costs) has received a fair amount of commentary in relation to the entitlement of non-Costs Lawyers to undertake certain “reserved activities”. Costs Judge Master Leonard had no difficulty accepting that where a costs draftsman prepared a bill of costs under the supervision and instruction of
Costs Lawyers delegating work Read More »
I’ve uploaded an article on the issue of what constitutes a “good reason” to depart from a costs budget to the Costs Law Articles Archive, first published in the New Law Journal.
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My office is in the process of being redecorated and this seemed like a good opportunity to have a general clear out. As part of this, I came across a couple of articles published in Litigation Funding magazine from February and April 2000. These show the dangers of trying to make predictions about the future
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The Legal Services Board (LSB) is apparently minded to refuse the Cost Lawyer Standards Board’s (CLSB) proposals to introduce a new route of entry into the profession. The LSB chief executive Neil Buckley said: “Having considered the application and responses provided by the CLSB to a number of issues that the LSB has raised, the
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The Civil Litigation Brief blog contained an interesting post about the dangers of lawyers working on the move and being overheard discussing confidential client matters or allowing confidential information to be read over their shoulders or leaving legal papers behind. The costs profession is not immune. Of the various examples given on Twitter: “Absolutely correct.
When dealing with high value personal injury litigation, paying parties tend not to lose much sleep over the issue of whether VAT should be paid on the full amount of medical records fees, where the medical records are obtained through a medical reporting organisation (“MRO”), or whether VAT should only apply to the MRO’s administration
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For many years, a large number of personal injury solicitors have automatically charged their clients a 100% success fee regardless of the risks of the case. This has been a standard business model for many firms, with the reasoning being that this will usually lead to an automatic 25% cut of the client’s general and
Automatic 100% success fees banned Read More »