Legal Cost Specialists
I’ve run a complete overhaul on Legal Costs Central (the one-stop gateway to legal costs information on the internet) part of our website. This has updated all the relevant rules and fixed a number of broken links. Let me know if there is anything else I should be adding.
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This is the second look at the guidance given on the new proportionality test by the Court of Appeal in West v Stockport NHS Foundation Trust [2019] EWCA Civ 1220. The previous post explored how the Court dealt a fatal blow to the new rule by introducing a test as to whether work was “unavoidable
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There has now been time to reflect on the Court of Appeal’s proportionality guidance given in the case of West v Stockport NHS Foundation Trust [2019] EWCA Civ 1220. And what a sorry mess that guidance was. The first part of the guidance related to the reasonableness and proportionality of the ATE premium. The Court
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The new Guidance Notes on Precedent H have now been published following the update to PD3E para.7.4 (which came into force on 1 October 2019) which now defines budgeted and incurred costs as: “a. Incurred costs are all costs incurred up to and including the date of the first costs management order, unless otherwise ordered.
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I have seen a number of Precedent H costs budgets which include, within the ADR/Settlement phase, the anticipated court fee for the Consent Order recording the settlement agreement. Is this correct? Costs budgets are predicated on the basis that the matter will proceed to a final trial. That is why there is a Trial phase.
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I’ve uploaded an article on whether the extension of fixed fees may reverse the trend of Costs Lawyers working in-house to the Costs Law Articles Archive, first published in Costs Lawyer magazine.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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