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“The court, in general, assumes that in all cases where parties have instructed different experts there will be, and will remain up to an including trial, a dispute between the experts. If and to the extent that there is no substantial or material dispute between the experts following service of reports or joint statements this […]

Costs webinar from Kings Chambers’ Andrew Hogan and Kevin Latham reviewing current issues in clinical negligence costs, including fixed costs, the increasing trend towards ADR, hourly rates and deductions for success fees and ATE premiums from protected parties and children’s damages.  

Costs webinar from Kings Chambers’ Matthew Smith and Paul Hughes discussing how the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Kenig v Thomson Snell and Passmore LLP [2024] EWCA Civ 15 affects the way that solicitors ought to perform retainers dealing with the administration of estates and the likelihood and course of assessment of their

In a recent speech, the Master of the Rolls suggested that the day may soon come when lawyers may be negligent if they fail to use generative artificial intelligence. Costs Counsel Andrew Hogan has been writing some interesting blog posts about the use of ChatGPT and shown some impressive looking content that it is able

Where the court orders a payment on account of costs, can that order be enforced? At this stage, the costs themselves have not yet been assessed. All that has been ordered is an interim amount until the actual amount due is determined. The note at 70.1.3 of the White Book 2023 suggests enforcement is not

Costs webinar from Kings Chambers’ Andrew Hogan and Kevin Latham on clinical negligence costs including hourly rates, budgeting, the use of ADR/mediation and fixed costs.  

Podcost discussing a broad range of current topics including the introduction of fixed recoverable costs, the latest challenges to funding models presented by the PACCAR decision, the influence of guideline hourly rates on detailed assessments and whether there is any appetite for reform of the Solicitors Act, with costs counsel Alex Hutton KC.  

The new Fourth Edition of Friston on Costs has now been published. In what must be one of the biggest shocks to the world of costs in recent years, the new edition has dramatically shrunk in size. It is noticeably thinner and lighter. However, this is little more than an optical illusion. Although the page