Legal Costs

The Senior Courts Costs Office has very helpfully provided me with a list of room numbers for Costs Judges and Costs Officers in the new Thomas More Building and these are as below: 6th Floor Thomas More Building Mr Lambert – TM6.05 Mr Edwards – TM6.05a Mr Baker – TM6.05a Mr Piggott – TM6.06 Master […]

Lord Neuberger, in a lecture on the new proportionality test, recently stated: “It would be positively dangerous for me to seek to give any sort of specific or detailed guidance in a lecture before the new rule has come into force and been applied. Any question relating to proportionality and any question relating to costs

In a recent statement to Parliament the justice minister Jonathan Djanogly announced that, in light of further recommendations from the Civil Justice Council, implementation of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 will include the following: “There is to be an additional sanction to be paid where judgment for the claimant is

Deborah Evans, chief executive of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, writing in the New Law Journal, stated: “The truth is, only claimant lawyers know the true cost of bringing valid claims.” This is a startlingly frank admission and proves what I have long suspected: claimant bills of costs are unlikely to give any clue

The Association of Costs Lawyers recently issued a press release revealing the results of a survey amongst Costs Lawyers as to their predictions as to the future of costs work. This was reported in the New Law Journal with the following explanation as to the impact of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders

Hot on the heels of my nomination last year as “the Asset & Wealth Management law expert position in England” I have now been “highly recommended” by the Global Law Experts (who?) accreditation panel for the Professional Negligence law position in the UK. Competition for this position is clearly very fierce and their research team

Things have reached a pretty state of affairs when the security guards manning the metal detectors at Swansea County Court laugh at one’s mobile phone when one empties one’s pockets. To be fair, my mobile was getting rather old and the power socket had just started to play up. I have therefore gone to Argos

It is more expensive to insure a valuable sports car than a second-hand Fiesta. It is more expensive to insure a car in an area with a high vehicle theft rate than one with a low one. Motor premiums are higher for young men than for older women. Premiums are higher for those with a

Dominic Regan commenting in the New Law Journal on proposals to extend the MoJ portal to EL claims by April 2013: “Short of organising a barn-dance in a minefield, it is difficult to envisage how the Ministry of Justice could cause more harm and upset so many practitioners.”

If you want to go to the Senior Courts Costs Office, don’t. Because, of course, the Senior Courts Costs Office has now moved. It is now located in the Thomas More Building within the Royal Court of Justice complex. To get there you will need to go into the main entrance of the Royal Court