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Recovering shortfall in costs from client’s damages

During the rough-and-tumble of a typical detailed assessment hearing, where the judge will be making multiple ex tempore decisions, it is routine to hear criticisms of the amount of time claimed by the receiving party and/or criticisms of certain items that have been included within a bill of costs. It is much less usual to […]

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Seeking costs from client in excess of approved budget – ST v ZY

Given the Court of Appeal recently adjourned the case of CAM Legal v Belsner, we will have to wait some time for guidance from the higher courts on the issue of informed consent when deductions are made from damages in personal injury cases. However, that has not stopped important developments elsewhere on the same issue

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Recoverability of court fees where fee remission available – Gibbs v King’s College NHS Foundation Trust

Significant costs, and much valuable court time, is taken up re-arguing identical points of principle in costs litigation due to the absence of a binding authority.  So it is with the issue of the recoverability of court fees. An example is where a claimant pays court fees and subsequently seeks to recover those from the

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Points of Dispute and electronic Bills of Costs

A (minority) of electronic Bills of Costs that I see follow the Association of Costs Lawyers’ template e-bill. This Bill enables Points of Dispute to be incorporated directly into the electronic spreadsheet. For certain Bills, there may be advantages to incorporating Points of Dispute into the Bill, but I usually prepare Points of Dispute as

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Part 36 offers in detailed assessment – Best v Luton & Dunstable Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

The costs subcommittee of the Civil Procedure Rule Committee (CPRC) is apparently due to consider whether it should be possible to make Part 36 offers in relation to the costs of detailed assessment. This follows the recent decision of Master Leonard in Best v Luton & Dunstable Hospital NHS Foundation Trust [2021] EWHC B2 (Costs)

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Recovery of interest paid on disbursement funding loan

Last week in Marbrow v Sharpes Garden Services Ltd [2020] EWHC B26 (Costs) (10 July 2020) the Senior Costs Judge Master Gordon-Saker handed down a reserved judgment in relation to three discreet issues where I acted for the Defendant paying party. None of the issues were novel, but they are ones that have continued to

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