Legal Costs

Another recent tweet from APIL (on 8 August 2012): “Prof Löfstedt wrote in his recent report that no evidence has been presented of a compensation culture – it’s a myth, not reality.” Again, sadly APIL provided no link to this report and it is therefore not entirely clear which one they are referring to. However, […]

I haven’t been using Twitter much recently, but popped back the other day to see if anything interesting had been posted. Although conventional tweets only allow for a limited number of characters per post (tweet), it is possible to insert short links to other parts of the internet to point readers in the direction of

David Marshall, writing in Solicitors Journal, on the recent announcement by the Court of Appeal that general damages will be increased by 10% and the fact the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 itself had not included provision for this: “This absence was raised in parliamentary debate. Ministers held to the line

Interesting Court of Appeal judgment in Hawksford Trustees Jersey Ltd v Stella Global UK Ltd & Anor [2012] EWCA Civ 987. Main issue concerned a claimant who had been unable to obtain ATE cover prior to the original trial. He was successful at trial and the Defendant appealed. At this stage the Claimant managed to

I mentioned the other day some of the anomalies thrown up by the Court of Appeal’s recent judgment that general damages should be increased by 10% where judgment is given after 1 April 2013. Kerry Underwood has now drafted a comprehensive, and masterful, analysis of some of the problem issues and this can be read

The website of barrister Sarah Robson contains some useful costs related case summaries, particularly in relation to RTA Portal claims: http://www.sarahrobsonbarrister.co.uk/Reported-Cases.html. Click image to enlarge:   www.qccartoon.com

Implementation of Lord Justice Jackson’s costs forms continues to gather pace. The Court of Appeal has implemented (somewhat by the back door) Jackson LJ’s proposal for a 10% increase in general damages (too partially compensate claimants for losing recoverability of success fees and ATE premiums) in its recent judgement in Simmons v Castle [2012] EWCA

Neil Rose, the Editor of Costs Lawyer magazine, has recently launched the Litigation Futures website. This is a spin-off of his excellent Legal Futures website and provides the latest news in relation to costs and funding. This is an absolutely invaluable resource. Not only is Neil invariably the first to break any news relating to

The other day I suggested that there must be an error in the statement made by justice minister Jonathan Djanogly concerning implementation of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 and how Part 36 would operate. It has now been confirmed that there was indeed an error in the statement and the

A further definition from The (Alternative) Legal Costs Dictionary: Civil Procedure Rules n. a set of rules set in stone and designed to provide certainty in the operation of the civil justice system, applied inconsistently and unpredictably by the courts. Currently in its 58th version. If the Ten Commandments had undergone changes and additions at