costs draftsmen

The Association of Costs Lawyers (ACL) is consulting on creating a new membership category: Fellow Costs Lawyer. I fear there is some muddled thinking behind this. The right to use the term “Costs Lawyer” comes from completing the relevant training and holding a current practising certificate issued by the Costs Lawyer Standards Board (CLSB). All […]

Preparation of the Precedent H costs budget requires figures to be inserted for both past incurred work and future estimated work. PD 3E para.7.4 provides: “As part of the costs management process the court may not approve costs incurred before the date of any costs management hearing. The court may, however, record its comments on those

I’ve uploaded an article on whether the extension of fixed fees may reverse the trend of Costs Lawyers working in-house to the Costs Law Articles Archive, first published in Costs Lawyer magazine.

I’ve uploaded an old article from September 2009 that made predictions on the future of the legal costs industry in light of the Preliminary Report from Lord Justice Jackson.  How many of these predictions were accurate?  First published in the Solicitors Journal.

The case of Allen v Brethertons LLP [2019] EWHC B3 (Costs) has received a fair amount of commentary in relation to the entitlement of non-Costs Lawyers to undertake certain “reserved activities”. Costs Judge Master Leonard had no difficulty accepting that where a costs draftsman prepared a bill of costs under the supervision and instruction of

The Legal Services Board (LSB) is apparently minded to refuse the Cost Lawyer Standards Board’s (CLSB) proposals to introduce a new route of entry into the profession. The LSB chief executive Neil Buckley said: “Having considered the application and responses provided by the CLSB to a number of issues that the LSB has raised, the

The Civil Litigation Brief blog contained an interesting post about the dangers of lawyers working on the move and being overheard discussing confidential client matters or allowing confidential information to be read over their shoulders or leaving legal papers behind. The costs profession is not immune.  Of the various examples given on Twitter: “Absolutely correct.

There exists something of a disconnect between how busy costs practitioners tend to tell you they are and what the market would suggest. Certainly, most costs lawyers and costs draftsmen would have you believe they are very busy and business is booming.  Sadly, the visible evidence suggests everything is not quite so rosy. Just Costs

In Ndole Assets Ltd v Designer M&E Services UK Ltd [2018] EWCA Civ 2865 the Court of Appeal was faced with the issue: “Is service of a claim form a reserved legal activity for the purposes of the Legal Services Act 2007 (the 2007 Act)? And if it is, does service of a claim form where