Friston on Costs discount
The new edition of Friston on Costs is now available to buy. (Review to follow.) Complete this very short and fun quiz to secure a big discount on the standard price: Friston on Costs Quiz (pointerpro.com).
Legal Costs
CPD for Costs Lawyers
Costs Lawyers would recently have been checking they had collected sufficient Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points for the previous practising year (currently 12 hours). The Costs Lawyer Standard Board (CLSB) website has very useful section setting out the CPD requirements and what activities earn CPD points. Part of this process includes setting training objectives at …
Costs seminar
Excellent costs update from Hailsham Chambers available to view: Hailsham Costs Seminar Includes very exciting news that Mark Friston’s latest edition of Friston on Costs may be with us soon.
Personal Injury Costs 2022 webinar
Excellent Personal Injury Costs 2022 webinar from Andrew Hogan and Craig Ralph now available.
Costs podcast
The latest podcast from the Practico “Costs chat with friends” series features Andrew Hogan and covers a number of interesting costs issues. Available via: Video – https://youtu.be/JluOwGBASyU Audio Soundcloud – https://soundcloud.com/user-144902971/2021-05-05-costs-chat-with-friends-andrew-hogan-with-jeremy-morgan-qc-and-andy-ellis Audio Spotify – https://open.spotify.com/episode/4xffxvZwu6CN2l4RbCgkc1?si=383bfae2ecbc4a3b Audio iTunes https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/practico-the-podcost-series/id1445931706#episodeGuid=tag%3Asoundcloud%2C2010%3Atracks%2F1046097754 A pleasant and convenient way to pick up some free CPD points.
Costs training during lockdown
Congratulations to all the speakers and The Legal Training Consultancy for managing to proceed with the Solicitor and Client Costs Conference last week. The event was live streamed over Zoom with the speakers giving their talks from their respective lockdowns. There were some inevitable comic moments with technical issues but, to be fair, most of …
Legal Costs Central
I’ve run a complete overhaul on Legal Costs Central (the one-stop gateway to legal costs information on the internet) part of our website. This has updated all the relevant rules and fixed a number of broken links. Let me know if there is anything else I should be adding.
White Paper Costs Conference
The White Paper Conference Company has lined up another excellent costs conference on Costs Litigation: Shaping New Law into Solution-Focused Answers for Your Clients on 13 March 2019. The speakers include: Regional Costs Judge Ian Besford, Alexander Hutton QC, Judith Ayling (39 Essex Street), Roger Mallalieu (4 New Square), David Marshall (Anthony Gold Solicitors), Alice Nash (Hailsham …
Friston on Costs
Shortly before Christmas the new edition of Friston on Costs landed on my doormat. Obviously, I do not mean that literally. They have yet to design a letterbox large enough for a book this size and, if you order online, the description has a two-person delivery symbol beside it to indicate the number needed to …
Most Outstanding Legal Costs Litigation Firm 2018 – London
The first problem with the vanity legal awards industry is that they are often ridiculously wide in the nature of the awards they seek to distribute, to the extent to which the awards are meaningless (even if they were distributed on merit). For example, Wealth & Finance INTL magazine previously awarded Gibbs Wyatt Stone ‘Most …
Most Outstanding Legal Costs Litigation Firm 2018 – London Read More »
