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Harmans are moving!
We’re excited to announce our move to a fabulous new office just up the road from our current premises in Waltham Abbey. From Monday 3 December 2018 our new address will be: Warlies Park House, Horseshoe Hill, Upshire, Essex EN9 3SL Our new telephone number will be: 01992…
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Harmans Costs Brief – October 2018: clinical negligence focus
This month’s Costs Brief has a clinical negligence focus, Partner and Costs Lawyer Matthew Harman discusses hourly rates in clinical negligence cases and details why it is not often that Claimant lawyers put their heads above the parapet on hourly rates these days. We also…
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Part 8 Application Fees: Avoid Common Court Errors
http://www.civillitigationbrief.com/2018/08/28/the-correct-fee-on-a-part-8-application-dont-let-the-court-staff-make-you-hand-over-money-for-nothing/ Updates and Commentary on Civil Procedure, by Gordon Exall, Barrister, Zenith Chambers, Leeds, & Hardwicke, London
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Matthew Harman discusses hourly rates in clinical negligence cases
JXA v Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (2018) EWHC 1747 (QB) It is not often these days that Claimant lawyers put their heads above the parapet on hourly rates. That is in part in case a decision is given which will be thrown back…
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Pound for Pound Orders: LKH -v- TQA AL Z [2018] EWHC 2436 (Fam)
In July 2018, Mr Justice Holman injuncted a husband from paying any further money (whether for their profit costs or disbursements) to any firm of solicitors practising in England and Wales instructed by him (or any counsel instructed by him on a Direct Access basis)…
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Electronic bills sparked fear
The electronic bill of costs has caused panic and denial among judges and solicitors, but matters are improving, research shows. Both solicitors and judges warned that they did not feel prepared for the electronic bill of costs when it became compulsory in April. In an Association…
