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Gibbs Wyatt Stone has just celebrated its fifth anniversary. (During that time GWS has gone from strength-to-strength … blah, blah, blah … growing reputation … blah, blah, blah … ever growing list of important clients … blah, blah, blah.) Traditional wisdom is that the first year for any new business is the most difficult, and […]
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The Law Society’s Model CFA agreement, for use in personal injury and clinical negligence cases only, defines “win” as: “Your claim for damages is finally decided in your favour, whether by a court decision or an agreement to pay you damages or in any way that you derive benefit from pursuing the claim.” What does
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Lord Justice Jackson’s Review of Civil Litigation Costs‘ recommendations included one that “software should be developed which will … automatically generate schedules for summary assessment or bills for detailed assessment”. Some software developers have already started to produce software that will semi-automatically generate bills. Unfortunately, such software requires synchronisation with expensive case-management software and relies
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The recent lobbying by claimant organisations has paid-off as the Government has entirely abandoned plans to implement the Jackson costs reforms. Oh … sorry. I had pre-prepared two different posts in advance of the announcement yesterday to deal with either eventuality. Let’s start again. The recent lobbying by claimant organisations has been a complete waste
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The Ministry of Justice will make a statement today as to its response to the Jackson consultation. Press leaks suggest that the government will push ahead with ending the recoverability of success fees and after-the-event insurance premium from the losing side. As usual, Legal Futures is likely to be first to report the details and
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Writing the Legal Costs Blog is great fun (so long as you don’t mind the hate mail, death threats and excrement shoved through the letter-box). However, one of the drawbacks is that readers come to expect absolutely all costs developments to be reported immediately and in full and complain bitterly if they feel I have
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Principal Costs Officer Denis O’Riordan is retiring from the Senior Courts Costs Office. Over the years I may not have always achieved the exact result I might have hoped for, but it has always been a pleasure to appear before him. What stands out is that I cannot recall a single occasion where I have
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Some interesting thoughts on anonymous comments appearing on websites from Joshua Rozenberg writing in the Law Society Gazette: “Write an article for publication these days and the chances are that it will attract ill-informed comments. No longer content with sending in a letter to the editor and waiting to see if it is printed, readers
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Court fees are due to increase from 4 April 2011. In addition to increases across the board, are increases to the fees for detailed assessment: (a) does not exceed £15,000 – £325 (b) exceeds £15,000 but does not exceed £50,000 – £655 (c) exceeds £50,000 but does not exceed £100,000 – £980 (d) exceeds £100,000
At any one time there are always a number of interesting upcoming legal costs conferences. Unfortunately, these often come at a fairly eye watering price. If I told you there was a full-day costs conference (5.5 CPD hours) in London with speakers including a number of specialist costs counsel such as Gordon Wignall, Simon Brown
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