Legal Cost Specialists
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has announced its intention to implement Sir Rupert Jackson’s proposals for extending fixed recoverable costs to most cases worth up to £100,000. However, rather than introducing a new intermediate track for cases worth £25,000 to £100,000, as Sir Rupert had suggested, it proposes extending the fast-track to claims worth up […]
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A new pilot scheme starts on 1 April 2019 for a new Statement of Costs for Summary Assessment. The pilot: Will run from 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2021. Applies to all claims, regardless of when “commenced” (presumably meaning when issued), that are subject to summary assessment. The two new forms that have been
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I recently looked at the case of Beardmore v Lancashire County Council where the court allowed recovery of medical agency fees (limited to £30 in addition to the direct costs) for obtaining medical records in an EL/PL Portal claim. These records were presumably obtained by the medial agency from the GP/hospital under the Data Protection (Subject
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In Beardmore v Lancashire County Council (County Court at Liverpool, 1/2/19), His Honour Judge Graham Wood QC allowed the claimant to recover medical agency fees incurred in obtaining medical records in an EL/PL Portal claim despite the fact there is no express allowance for this in the CPR, unlike the RTA Portal rules. A medical agency
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A new Precedent R costs budget discussion report form has been produced that will come into force from 25 April 2019 (last page here). In terms of changes to the current version: The form now includes incurred costs. This may, in part, have been to avoid confusion as to what figures were meant to be
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The front page of the Precedent H form for costs budgets has a section at the bottom for completion of the costs of the costs budgeting process: [wptg_comparison_table id=”1″] I routinely see budgets served where this part of the form has been completed, calculated by reference to 1% or 2% of the total of the
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There exists something of a disconnect between how busy costs practitioners tend to tell you they are and what the market would suggest. Certainly, most costs lawyers and costs draftsmen would have you believe they are very busy and business is booming. Sadly, the visible evidence suggests everything is not quite so rosy. Just Costs
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The White Paper Conference Company has lined up another excellent costs conference on Costs Litigation: Shaping New Law into Solution-Focused Answers for Your Clients on 13 March 2019. The speakers include: Regional Costs Judge Ian Besford, Alexander Hutton QC, Judith Ayling (39 Essex Street), Roger Mallalieu (4 New Square), David Marshall (Anthony Gold Solicitors), Alice Nash (Hailsham
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In Ndole Assets Ltd v Designer M&E Services UK Ltd [2018] EWCA Civ 2865 the Court of Appeal was faced with the issue: “Is service of a claim form a reserved legal activity for the purposes of the Legal Services Act 2007 (the 2007 Act)? And if it is, does service of a claim form where
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Shortly before Christmas the new edition of Friston on Costs landed on my doormat. Obviously, I do not mean that literally. They have yet to design a letterbox large enough for a book this size and, if you order online, the description has a two-person delivery symbol beside it to indicate the number needed to