Gibbs Wyatt Stone recently secured a costs saving of approximately £160,000 in the case of Morgan v Llandow Metals (Newport County Court). The Claimant’s solicitors presented a Bill of Costs for approximately £160,000. An offer of £100,000 was made on behalf of the Defendant supported by an interim payment in the same sum. The offer […]
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The main issue considered in Crane v Canons Leisure [2007] EWCA Civ 1352 was whether the work performed by external costs draftsmen should attract a success fee. The claim had been conducted under a CCFA and, come the detailed assessment proceedings, the successful Claimant’s solicitors outsourced the work to external costs draftsmen. The Claimant’s solicitors
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The 2007 edition of His Honour Michael Cook’s leading text on legal costs Cook on Costs has now been published. In his preface he comments that he has been “rigorously selective” in the decisions that he included in the book. Nevertheless, three decisions where the advocates at Gibbs Wyatt Stone acted have been included (Pirie
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