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Legal costs update by Gary Knight
As prepared by Partner and Costs Lawyer Gary Knight for the next edition of Litigation Funding magazine. October 2018 saw a flurry of costs related decisions and I could not bid farewell to 2018 without comment: Stephen John Culliford (1) Dawn Lane (2) -v- Jocelyn…
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Voluntary Capped Costs Pilot: Fee Breakdown
The pilot will run for two years from 14 January 2019 for cases valued at between £100,000 and £250,000. The final rules have now been approved and the costs will be set out at the end of the new Practice Direction 51W as follows: Work…
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Harmans Costs Brief – December 2018
In this month’s Costs Brief Gary Knight analyses two recent costs cases, one in which solicitors were given another reason to have sleepless nights and one which resulted in a successful costs management order appeal. Meanwhile, Mathew Knight takes a look at defamation and the…
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Specialist Costs Expertise in Defamation Claims
What is defamation? Defamation is the publication to a third party of a statement about you which has caused or is likely to cause serious harm to your reputation. The defamatory publication will either be a libel or a slander. What is libel? Libel relates…
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Successful costs management order appeal
With thanks to Tom Jenkinson at Bolt Burdon Kemp for kindly making the full judgment available. Yirenki v MOD – QB/2018/0134 – 2 November 2018 Appeal to Mr Justice Jacobs against a decision made at Costs Case Management hearing. The decision may be one that…
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Court of Appeal: Statute bills do not have to include profit costs and disbursements
In March 2017, Master James gave Solicitors one more reason to have sleepless nights when dealing with the matter of: Richard John Slade (trading as Richard Slade and Company) -and- (1) Jugmohan Boodia (2) Deoranee Boodia At the hearing of the claim Master James directed…
