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Gary Knight on Litigation Funding and Costs
To what extent has the costs profession evolved since its inception, and have there been any key milestones of particular significance? I started in costs in 1983 – even then the rules applied to costs were being scrutinised with a proposed simpler format being introduced…
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Harmans costs seminar resources from 5 May 2016
If you couldn’t be there on the day here’s all of the notes and resources used by our speakers: 160505 costs budgets presentation SG precedent-h-guidance-note 160505 Summary of Lynch handout notes JM Samantha Jones – Cost Talk – 05.05.2016
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Harmans Costs Brief – February 2016
Costs Brief February is here! Where else could we start but Gary Knight’s scathing response to Lord Justice Jackson’s vision of fixed costs. There’s also a legal costs update of key cases, the summary of the Civil Courts Structure Review interim report from Lord Justice Briggs plus we cover…
Tags: bill of costs, CFA, Civil Courts Structure Review, clinical negligence, costs seminar, County Court, court fees, Court of Appeal, CPR 44.3(2), family court, fixed costs, HMCTS, Law Society, Legal costs update, Legal Services payment orders, Lord Chief Justice, Lord Justice Briggs, Lord Justice Jackson, Personal Injury, The Master of the Rolls -
Assignment of CFA from one firm to another
Jones v Spire Healthcare 2015 (unreported) Liverpool County Court Case No: A13YJ811 11 September 2015 The need for a transfer of a CFA in this case from law firm Barnetts to SGI Legal came about by the insolvency of the former firm. DJ Jenkinson held…
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CPR sanctions for failure to serve funding documents with a Bill of Costs
At Harmans we still find that certain Claimant law firms, and even some Costs Lawyers, still refuse to provide the information required by CPR Costs Practice Direction 32.5(1)(c) & (d) when serving a Bill of Costs – namely a Statement of Reasons for the Success…
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Legal Costs Update #5: Key Developments
Whilst December may have been the holiday season with thoughts of well earned down time with family and friends there were still matters to be determined by the Courts and the following matters may justify consideration during the early weeks of the New Year LINDA…
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Firm wins appeal against insurer that settled its PI claims
The Court of Appeal has allowed an appeal from a personal injury firm that argued that an insurer went behind its back to settle claims. North-west firm Gavin Edmondson said Haven Insurance acted unlawfully in making direct offers to clients in 2012. The law firm…
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The application of the “new” proportionality test on an assessment of costs
It has been sometime since the “new” test for proportionality was introduced for work undertaken post 1 April 2013 with CPR 44.3(2) stating: “Where the amount of costs is to be assessed on the standard basis…Costs which are disproportionate in amount may be disallowed or…
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Relief from Sanctions Upheld by Court of Appeal
[2015] EWCA Civ 1029 In Caliendo v Mishcon de Reya [2014] EWHC 3414 (Ch) on 21st October 2014, Mr Justice Hildyard had granted the Claimants relief from sanction under the old CPR 44.3B and allowed the Claimants to keep their CFAs with DLA Piper, despite having…
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Harmans Costs Brief – October 2015
October is shaping up to be a busy month at Harmans – we’re looking forward to the Law Society Excellence Awards in London this Thursday and keeping everything crossed for our app Costs Expert which has been shortlisted in the Business Development category! The Harmans Aylesbury team is on…
Tags: budget hearings, case management, case management conference, CFA, CMC, consumer ADR, costs, Costs Brief, costs budgets, Costs Expert app, Court of Appeal, CPR, Denton, HMCTS, Insurance Premium Tax, Law Society, Law Society Excellence Awards, National Minimum Wage, Practice Direction, relief from sanctions, tax
