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Sara Gould speaking at ACL London Conference
We’re proud to share that Sara Gould will be speaking at this year’s ACL Conference, which returns to London on 7 November 2025. The conference will bring together Costs Judges, Costs Barristers, Costs Lawyers and other leading practitioners to share key updates, insights and innovations…
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A valuable insight into the costs budgeting process
A very interesting case has appeared on Bailli recently and reveals an interesting view as to how the Master in the case approached the fixing of a budget. The case [2025] EWHC 674 (Ch) involves Atlantic Ways Holding SA (Claimant) and Freetown Terminal Holding Limited…
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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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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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Harmans Costs Brief – November 2023
Welcome to the latest Costs Brief featuring our recent ranking in The Legal 500 as one of the ‘Firms in the Spotlight 2024’, some analysis from Partner and Costs Lawyer Gary Knight on two cases from the Court of Appeal and the Competition Appeal Tribunal involving the reference…
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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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Matthew Harman on budget misconceptions
In our final video installment of 2022 Partner and Costs Lawyer Matthew Harman takes a look at budget misconceptions and areas of confusion based on discussions he’s had over the years with various fee earners at various firms. You can find the video on our YouTube channel, along with more videos from…
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Broad brush budgeting
It has been a little while since a judgment dealing with Costs Budgets so it was nice to see on BAILII a decision from Mr Roger Ter Haar KC sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge in the TCC on 2 November 2022. https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/TCC/2022/2767.html ASSOCIATED…
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Sara Gould on amending a costs budget
In the latest installment of our new video series Sara Gould talks about amending a costs budget, using the Precedent T and the benchmark for significant development and good reason. You can find the video on our YouTube channel, along with more videos from some of…
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Steve Jones on time recording
In the latest installment of our new video series Steve Jones talks about time recording in the context of costs budgets, electronic bills and paperless files. You can find the video on our YouTube channel, along with more videos from some of our other Partners, we…
