Legal Cost Specialists
Readers may be interested in the recent article I wrote for the New Law Journal (see link) on Lord Justice Jackson’s proposals in relation to redefining the concept of proportionality in legal costs.
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A further definition from The (Alternative) Legal Costs Dictionary: Law costs draftsman n. a lawyer concerned with quantifying the legal costs of a case. A costs draftsman is to the legal profession what a train spotter is to the world of professional sportsmen. Similar to an accountant but without the glamour or dress sense.
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The classified section of the freebie Metro newspaper usually has a section called “Spiritual”. A typical entry reads: “International renowned spiritual healer, clairvoyant & adviser. I can give advice on family matters, loved ones, depression, courts cases, anti social behaviour, stress, exams, career, etc. One minute walk from Plaistow station.” Actually, the one minute walk
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I am going to do something that does not come naturally to me. I have going to admit I was wrong. Worse than that, I am going to have to admit to being wrong about three things. This whole process is so traumatic that I am going to have to stagger this over several days.
The internet contains an enormous amount of legal costs law information, much of it free. Unfortunately, it tends to be scattered throughout the web or buried deep within specialist sites. Wouldn’t it be great if all this information could be easily accessed? Well, of course it would be which is why the Legal Costs Blog
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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,
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