VAT Practice Notes
Links to updated Law Society practice notes on VAT on disbursements and VAT increase to 20%, and Bar Council guide on VAT increase now available via the VAT section on Legal Costs Central.
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Costs Law forum
I recently mentioned access to the Members’ Forum as being one of the benefits of membership of the Association of Costs Lawyers. This is, for obvious reasons, available only to members. Some readers may recall the excellent open forum that there used to be on the Costs Monkey website. Unfortunately, this has been down for
New Association of Costs Lawyers' Council member
I spent much of Saturday being carried aloft by crowds of cheering costs lawyers following my surprise election to the Association of Costs Lawyers’ Council. The election as a whole was a surprisingly close run thing, with the voting suggesting a fairly wide, and possibly relatively evenly balanced, range of views amongst the membership about
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Association of Costs Lawyers launch
The following is an edited version of the address given by Iain Stark, chairman of the Association of Costs Lawyers, at the recent launch of the Association’s new name, which appeared in Costs Lawyer magazine, and is reproduced with his kind permission: Henry Ford once said that coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is
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Legal costs developments
The Court of Appeal decision in Sousa v London Borough of Waltham Forest [2011] EWCA Civ 194 may be (but probably won’t be) the final word on what the law currently is in relation to recoverability of success fees. However, the Court went out of its way to give further support to the Jackson costs
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Sousa v London Borough of Waltham Forest
Judgment was handed down yesterday by the Court of Appeal in Sousa v London Borough of Waltham Forest [2011] EWCA Civ 194. This case concerned a claimant who suffered subsidence damage to his property caused by tree roots of a tree owned by the defendant. The claimant’s damages were insured under an insurance policy between
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Sibthorpe & Morris v London Borough of Southwark
In Sibthorpe & Morris v London Borough of Southwark [2011] EWCA Civ 25 the Court of Appeal declined to strike down as unlawful (on the basis of champerty) CFAs where the claimants’ solicitors agreed to indemnify the claimants against adverse costs orders. The February 2011 edition of Litigation Funding reported the claimants’ solicitors as saying
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Keep pedalling
In recent years the call for ever closer European integration has grown much quieter. Those in this country who argued that joining the single currency would lead to growth and economic stability have fallen strangely silent in light of events in Greece, Ireland, etc. However, going back a few years, those at the heart of
Lawtel subscription rates
I recently commented on some of the benefits of membership of the Association of Costs Lawyers (ACL) which included discounted subscription fees for Lawtel. I’m now going to have to remove that benefit from the list. When the existing annual Lawtel subscriptions of some ACL members were coming up for renewal those members had the
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An end to time recording?
One of Jackson LJ’s proposals is for fixed costs for all stages of all fast-track matters. He concluded that this would produce savings in its own right as: “Claimant solicitors will no longer have to maintain documentation required for costs assessment” This is presumably on the basis that it will not be necessary to time
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