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Costs budgets
Costs Budgets continue to raise matters requiring appeals to provide guidance if not answers; Gary Knight looks at a case in which the Claimant experienced difficulties in addressing the Judge at the CCMC as to the content of the Defendant’s Costs Budget and took umbrage…
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Application to Vary an Approved Costs Budget
Partner and Costs Lawyer Gary Knight recently received instructions to assist with an application to vary an approved costs budget, he found the process of interest and so thought he’d share. First port of call: 3.15A. (1) A party (“the revising party”) must revise its…
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Harmans Costs Brief – March 2019
This month’s Costs Brief has been taken over by Gary Knight who looks at some recent costs related decisions and highlights, among other things, the importance of seeking an interim payment in respect of costs at the conclusion of the case as well as the…
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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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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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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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Harman Costs Brief – May 2017
In this issue Costs Lawyer Suzanna Popplewell gives an overview of Proportionality; we look at CFAs and ATE Premiums and also feature a budget preparation fee explanation. Not forgetting it’s the month of the London Legal Walk! We hope you find the latest issue of…
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Budget fee preparation explanation
The minutes of the February meeting of the Civil Procedure Rules Committee have now been released. Given almost equal prominence as progression of the role of hot-tubbing in civil litigation are changes to be made to the provisions of section 7.2 of Practice Direction 3E.…
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Leeds DR trialling 6 month costs budget practice
With the intention of avoiding the expense and inconvenience of cost management and likewise the need to have a Costs and Case Management Conference the Chancery District Judges at Leeds District Registry with the support of the Vice Chancellor have introduced a new practice as…
