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News from the ACL conference
The ACL this year pulled off something of a major coup in that the key note speech at the annual conference on 11th May was given by Lord Neuberger, the Master of the Rolls. In a wide ranging speech he attacked the long established practice of…
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The Costs Practice Direction (Parts 43 to 48) Section 6 is still out there.
Beware inaccurate costs estimates can lead to future difficulty
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Interest on Costs
The Court of Appeal has now ruled in the case of Simcoe -v-Jacuzzi Summed up with the concluding remark at Paragraph 51 of the Master of the Rolls: As it is, for the reasons given in this judgment, I would allow the claimant’s appeal, and…
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LSC wins case on recoupment
The Legal Services Commission recently obtained judgment [ LSC v Loomba and others [2012] EWHC 29 (QB)] in relation to the recovery of payments on account made under the Legal Aid Act 1988 The case involved a test case. All claims related to money that the LSC…
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Danger signs – Costs Lawyer magazine
Matthew Harman considers the implications of a High Court ruling on disclosing funding arrangements, which the first instance judge said could destroy the whole CFA regime: Just when everybody is concentrating on the biggest costs case in years in Motto v Trafigura another important case…
