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Very interesting webinar on AI in costs from Kings Chambers’ Andrew Hogan and Paul Hughes considering key issues arising out of the use of Artificial Intelligence in legal practice including: What are AI and LLMs. AI ethics. Regulatory concerns. ChatGPT and other open applications. Legal applications (briefly) AI’s application to costs The future of AI. […]

Webinar on personal injury costs from Kings Chambers Andrew Hogan and Craig Ralph, discussing current developments in hourly rates, deductions from damages, mediation and ADR, and other topics of interest.  

The new edition of the White Book was recently published. This year we purchased the online firmwide edition which comes bundled together with Volume 2. It is a number of years since I had seen Volume 2. This includes a section on costs and funding containing various reference resources such as: Conditional Fee Agreements Order

What happens after an award of costs in a planning appeal? Costs webinar from Kings Chambers’ Andrew Hogan discussing how a claim for costs is formulated, how it is assessed, and how the court determines the amount of costs a paying party has to pay.  

Congratulations to William Wyatt, one of the founding partners of Gibbs Wyatt Stone, for being awarded an MBE (Member of the British Empire) in the King’s New Year Honours List 2025. The award was made for services to disabled people. William has worked tirelessly for disabled people learning to swim, through his involvement in the Halliwick

Costs webinar from Kings Chambers’ Andrew Hogan and Steven Turner reviewing the law, practice and procedure relating to non-party costs orders in the context of recent case law.  

The recent decision of Costs Judge James in Kapoor v Johal, Johal & Johal [2024] EWHC 2853 (SCCO) is a relatively rare example of the Court not only exercising its powers under CPR 44.11, but this resulting in a complete disallowance of all costs claimed within the Bill of Costs. The £258,583.78 Bill was assessed

The Practice Direction on Administrative Court Bundle Guidance explains how PDF bundles should be numbered: “All bundles must be paginated in ascending order from start to finish. The first page of the PDF will be numbered “1”, and so on. (Any original page numbers of documents within the bundle are to be ignored.) Index pages

“In general, there is an expectation that the first draft of a witness statement can be undertaken by lower grade fee earners including Grade C solicitors and legal executives (and those with similar experience). This is particularly so since witness statements should, in general, be drafted in the witness’ own words. Whether and the extent

“Joint Settlement Meetings (JSM) It is not generally an objection to an allowance being made for a JSM that one or other party thinks such a meeting is unlikely to be required (unless it is clear that one will not be required or appropriate). It can be budgeted for on the assumption that one will