Costs webinar from Kings Chambers’ Andrew Hogan and Kevin Latham on clinical negligence costs including hourly rates, budgeting, the use of ADR/mediation and fixed costs.
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The Master of the Rolls has approved new guideline hourly rates to come into force from 1 January 2024 and thereafter to be uplifted annually by the Services Producer Price Index. Grade Fee earner London 1 London 2 London 3 National 1 National 2 A Solicitors and legal executives with over 8 years’ experience £546 (£512) £398 (£373)
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The latest twist in the long running saga of AB v Secretary of State for Justice [2023] EWHC 72 (KB) (and X v The Transcription Agency LLP & Anor [2023] EWHC 1092 (KB)) is that AB/X, who previously benefited from an anonymity order, has been revealed as high profile solicitor advocate Robin Makin, of Liverpool
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The decision in PACCAR Inc & Ors, R (on the application of) v Competition Appeal Tribunal & Ors [2023] UKSC 28 has left many third party funders scrabbling around looking for a solution to keep their business models intact. The Supreme Court ruled that litigation funding agreements (LFAs) whereby the third party funder took a percentage of
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The indemnity principle does not apply in relation to fixed recoverable costs (as per Butt v Nizami [2006] EWHC 159 (QB)). This has become increasingly important with the extension of fixed recoverable costs from 1 October 2023. In the past, the importance of this was often in the context of considering whether there was an
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The decision of Senior Costs Judge Gordon-Saker in Kenton v Slee Blackwell PLC [2023] EWHC 2613 (SCCO) is another warning as to the dangers of failing to give proper costs estimates. The client had entered into a Conditional Fee Agreement with their solicitors. In advance of entering into the agreement, the solicitors had provided the
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The major extension of Fixed Recoverable Costs has left two areas where the recoverable costs are capped rather than fixed: For non-personal injury cases suitable for the Intermediate Track which settle “from pre-issue up to and including the date of service of the defence” (CPR 45.50(3)). Cases where the receiving party is a litigant in
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Podcost discussing a broad range of current topics including the introduction of fixed recoverable costs, the latest challenges to funding models presented by the PACCAR decision, the influence of guideline hourly rates on detailed assessments and whether there is any appetite for reform of the Solicitors Act, with costs counsel Alex Hutton KC.
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The Government’s report Extending Fixed Recoverable Costs in Civil Cases noted one of the benefits of extending fixed recoverable costs, including applying a fixed % uplift on the fixed costs if a party succeeds on a Part 36 offer (rather than allowing indemnity costs), was that this would avoid the need for the “keeping of
Do solicitors need to time record with fixed recoverable costs? Read More »
The transitional provisions concerning the new rules relating to Fixed Recoverable Costs appear to contain a fairly obvious and significant drafting error. s1(1) of The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023 provides: “These Rules may be cited as the Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023 and come into force on 1st October 2023,
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