fixed fees

Very interesting webinar from costs counsel Andrew Hogan and Paul Hughes on the upcoming fixed costs extension.  

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) recently announced that it intends the extension of fixed recoverable costs in most money cases worth up to £100,000 to come into force from October 2022. This is, of course, subject to the Civil Procedure Rule Committee redrafting CPR 45 in time.  This itself is a significant undertaking, particularly as

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has announced its intention to implement Sir Rupert Jackson’s proposals for extending fixed recoverable costs to most cases worth up to £100,000. However, rather than introducing a new intermediate track for cases worth £25,000 to £100,000, as Sir Rupert had suggested, it proposes extending the fast-track to claims worth up

Hailsham Chambers has reported on the Court of Appeal decision in the appeal of Hislop v Perde [2018] EWCA Civ 1726. This concerns the correct approach where a defendant accepts a claimant’s Part 36 offer after expiry of the 21 day period.  Many claimants have argued that the claimant should be entitled to recover indemnity

The lobbying over the Government’s proposals to slash RTA portal fixed fees has thrown up some interesting arguments. The Law Society has waded into the debate to argue that there is “substantial evidence” that the RTA portal fee should go up by £100, rather than down by £700. The Law Society has based this on

In costs law you can be sure of only one thing: If something looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s probably not a duck. Following on from my recent post as to When is an RTA not an RTA?, the decision of Costs Judge Master Campbell in Schneider

Jonathan Djanogly has confirmed that the Government intends to reduce the fixed fees in RTA claims once the ban on referral fees comes in. Can we also expect a reduction in Guideline Hourly Rates, which haven’t been increased this year? A nicely balanced piece on the subject of RTA claims was published in the Daily

Back in January 2010, I raised some concerns about the upcoming new RTA claims process. I wrote: “Much has been made of the fact that the level of fixed fee is set below the average amounts recovered by claimant lawyers under the current rules. Good news for defendants. But, and it may be premature to