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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 …

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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.

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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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