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Claimant penalised for excessive and unrealistic costs budget
The issue of a costs budget found to be excessive and unrealistic required a further hearing in order to consider what costs order was to be made following the CMC held on 15 May 2024. MR NICHOLAS WORCESTER (BY HIS WIFE AND LITIGATION FRIEND, DOMINIQUE…
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Cost Budgeting: Decision on Misuse of Precedent R to play a procedural game
Important decision for costs budgeting: COST BUDGETING: USING PRECEDENT R TO PLAY A PROCEDURAL GAME Blog by Kerry Underwood.
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Harmans Costs Brief – Summer 2016
Gary Knight asks who’d be a Costs Judge these days following several decisions being overturned on appeal. There’s also analysis of another recent interesting case in the Court of Appeal, plus the final report from Lord Justice Briggs following his review of the structure of…
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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…
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Costs budgeting by Matthew Harman
I spend a good deal of time dealing with budget hearings in the Queen’s Bench Division corridor. From my perspective they waste an awful lot of time being listed at times like 11:30am, which leads to a complete morning and early afternoon out of the…
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Summer Budget July 2015
The Chancellor has delivered his Summer Budget 2015 and here are the key points announced: Further increases of the personal allowance to £11,000 and the higher rate threshold to £43,000 from 6th April 2016. In 2017/18 the thresholds will be £11,200 and £43,600. From April…
