Final Jackson Costs Report published
The wait is over and the report has been published: Final Report (click link).
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The wait is over and the report has been published: Final Report (click link).
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I previously commented (see post) on the possibility of a new bill of costs format emerging as a result of the Lord Justice Jackson’s Civil Litigation Costs Review. The Senior Courts Costs Office Costs Practitioners Group recent minutes (see link) provided an update: “Proposals for a new format for bills of costsAs a result of
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It is obvious how much work has been put in by Lord Justice Jackson and his team in relation to his preliminary report on his Review of Civil Litigation Costs and his forthcoming final report (due for publication on 14 January 2010). However, others have also put a lot of time and effort into this
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As the excitement about the publication of Lord Justice Jackson’s final report on his Review of Civil Litigation Costs builds to an uncontrollable frenzy, an event to place in your diary is a live webinar panel discussion on the key proposals in the report on the same day as publication (14 January 2010) over at
The decision in Crane v Canons Leisure [2007] EWCA Civ 1352 means that solicitors can outsource work but then charge for this work as though they had done it themselves (with a higher hourly rate than that paid to the agent) and claim a success fee on top. Therefore, in the case of detailed assessments,
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For those of you with nothing better to do on New Year’s Eve than read the Legal Costs Blog (this post was written in advance and published automatically) spare a thought for the Master of the Rolls who was due to receive an advance copy of Lord Justice Jackson’s final report on his Review of
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Those involved in the world of legal costs will be dreading VAT reverting to 17.5% in 2010 and the difficulties this will cause in relation to bill drafting. On the subject of VAT, another video from Colin Berry, this time about solicitors’ bills and VAT: (If you receive the Legal Costs Blog via email you
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I wouldn’t usually post something giving tips on how lawyers can increase the legal costs they can recover but I thought I would make an exception in this case. (If you receive the Legal Costs Blog via email you made need to adjust your security settings to view the video.) Is it just me or
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Surprisingly, legal costs is not a subject that many of the world’s great songwriters have chosen to deal with. You can therefore imagine how exited I was to come across the following: (If you receive the Legal Costs Blog via email you made need to adjust your security settings to view the video.)
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Some of you may have already come across Colin Berry. His wife suffered serious injuries following two washing machines falling onto her from a height of 30 feet. (To have one washing machine fall on you may be regarded as a misfortune; to have two looks … etc.) Mr Berry wrote on one website: “My
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