Legal Cost Specialists
The Law Society is running an online survey on Lord Justice Jackson’s Costs Review. They say they have "concerns over the possible effect on access to justice and the impact on solicitors’ business models and income streams". Although the survey purports to be open to those who act for either claimants, defendants or both, the […]
Jackson Costs Review Survey Read More »
For those who haven’t already read them, the Senior Courts Costs Office Costs Practitioners’ Group Minutes of the last meeting can be found here.
SCCO Costs Practitioners' Group Minutes Read More »
Not all of the proposals contained in Lord Justice Jackson’s Review of Civil Litigation Costs require primary legislation. One of the intriguing questions is the extent to which the judiciary will quietly introduce some of his ideas. Andrew Parker, writing in the New Law Journal, said: "Anecdotally one or two County Courts are already taking
Is Jackson already happening? Read More »
A further definition from The (Alternative) Legal Costs Dictionary: Indemnity principle n. legal principle that receiving party cannot recover from paying party in legal costs more than he is liable to pay his own lawyer. To make the process fair on detailed assessment, the paying party is denied access to any information concerning the terms
Indemnity Principle Read More »
The press has been reporting on The British Chiropractic Association (BCA) dropping their libel action against science writer Simon Singh. The BCA had sued Dr Singh over a newspaper article in which he alleged that the organisation promoted “bogus treatments”, such as chiropractic for childhood asthma and colic, which were not supported by evidence. Now,
Legal costs shortfall Read More »
For those who work in the world of legal costs law it is generally recognised as being, at best, an art rather than a science. However, the other day I stumbled across an attempt to make the process of predicting legal fees more accurate. I don’t know what other people stumble across on the internet
Legal Fees Guesstimator Read More »
The long wait is finally over and Dr Mark Friston’s new book Civil Costs: Law and Practice is finally published. It should be starting to ship and arrive in bookshops round about now. Was it worth the wait? Oh, yes. Early drafts may have hinted at it but the final version confirms this book will
Civil Costs: Law and Practice Read More »
Those of you visiting the Legal Costs Blog today and thinking something looks different do not need to worry or have you eyes tested. The Blog’s previous publishing platform was about to be discontinued meaning that the Blog was about to disappear. Regular readers (God bless both of you) might have thought that would be
I previously commented on the relaunch of Costs Law Reports (see post). Yesterday they launched the associated new website. The Legal Costs Blog had been granted a sneak advance preview but they have clearly been busy over the last day or two making further improvements. The site provides access to all cases reported by Costs
Costs Law Reports – Online Launch Read More »
Those who act for paying parties are no doubt familiar with the Law Society’s Find a solicitor (see link) site that enables a check to be done on when a solicitor qualified. This is an invaluable tool for checking PQE and whether a fee earner therefore qualifies for a particular grade of hourly rate. The