Legal Cost Specialists
Can a “Calderbank” offer made during the course of detailed assessment proceedings be accepted by a receiving party after the detailed assessment hearing has commenced and once it has become clear that the receiving party will ultimately recover less than the amount of the offer? Yes, ruled Mr Justice Morris in MEF v St George’s […]
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Guidance on remote costs hearings has now been produced. This has apparently been produced by a group of costs professionals with the support of the regional costs bench. It has been met with approval by the costs judges at the Senior Courts Costs Office. The guidance can be found on the Association of Costs Lawyer’s
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The 2020-21 edition of the Costs & Fees Encyclopaedia has now been published. This edition includes changes to costs and fees in the last 24 months including: Court of Protection, Civil Proceedings and Magistrates’ Courts Fees (Amendment) Order 2018 Immigration and Nationality (Fees) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 Legal Officers (Annual Fees) Order 2018 Ecclesiastical
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Congratulations to all the speakers and The Legal Training Consultancy for managing to proceed with the Solicitor and Client Costs Conference last week. The event was live streamed over Zoom with the speakers giving their talks from their respective lockdowns. There were some inevitable comic moments with technical issues but, to be fair, most of
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With much of the legal profession now in lockdown, attention has naturally started to focus on the use of telephone/video conferencing facilities to undertake court hearings, mediations, meetings, etc. Gordon Exall’s Civil Litigation Brief blog has been providing a large number of useful links providing various guidance on how to make use of this technology.
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If costs management orders simply set a total figure for each phase, how are VAT and success fees to be determined? This problem is explored on our Costs Budgeting Blog.
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Ancient Chinese curse: “May you live in interesting times” With much of the economy in total shutdown, coronavirus has had very limited disruption on my typical working day. When we first set up 14 years ago, it was based on remote working for all fee earners and still is. Other than the fact I will
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Preparation of the Precedent H costs budget requires figures to be inserted for both past incurred work and future estimated work. PD 3E para.7.4 provides: “As part of the costs management process the court may not approve costs incurred before the date of any costs management hearing. The court may, however, record its comments on those
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The new Guidance Notes on Precedent H, following the update to PD3E para.7.4 (which came into force on 1 October 2019), moves trial brief fees from the Trial phase to the Trial Preparation phase. This is presumably on the basis that the brief will be delivered before the trial commences and liability for the brief fee
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Why does only the first page of the Precedent H costs budget need to be completed where the value of the claim as stated on the claim form is less than £50,000? This strange provision is explored on our Costs Budgeting Blog.
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