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Harmans breakfast seminar – Friday 11 April at The Law Society
Our latest seminar is now fully booked! The seminar will focus on costs in a post-Jackson landscape. We will be holding two sessions: 9.15-10.30am (please note: this session is now full) and 10.45-12.00pm (please note: this session is now also full). Each session carries 1 CPD…
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Harmans Costs consolidate with Lauben deal
Harmans Costs are pleased to announce the acquisition of Lauben Legal Services and appointment of Jim Lines as Partner. Chesham-based Lauben Legal Services is a costs drafting business set up in 1994 by Costs Lawyer Jim Lines. Lauben deal with all areas of Civil Costs…
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Costs Budgeting Extended to £10m Cases
The Master of the Rolls has recommended a new £10m threshold despite opposition from Commercial Court judges, who wanted to retain the current exemption from budgeting which applies to Commercial Court cases and to cases in the Chancery, Mercantile and Technology and Construction Courts worth…
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Harmans Costs Brief – February 2014
Here’s your lunchtime reading! Includes articles on Relief from Sanctions, ATE insurance premiums and contentious and non-contentious business agreements along with news of an addition to the Chelmsford team, Matthew’s latest speaker booking, our next breakfast seminar and more, phew, we have been busy! http://eepurl.com/OFv3b
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Contentious and Non-contentious Business Agreements by Jim Knight
I still receive requests from solicitors to render advice and assistance in connection with problems encountered over contentious and non-contentious business agreements The main difference between a solicitor relying on a contentious and a non-contentious business agreement is that he must obtain permission of the…
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Breaking news – update to previous news article…
Lord Justice Leveson, President of the Queen’s Bench Division and the Deputy Head of Civil Justice Lord Justice Richards have formally approved the new model direction as detailed in our previous article. Text as follows: ‘The parties may, by prior agreement in writing, extend the…
