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Matthew Harman on costs budgets
In the second installment of our new video series Matthew Harman provides a few pointers to consider when preparing a costs budget. You can find the video on our YouTube channel, along with more videos from some of our other Partners, we hope you find them…
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Harmans Costs Brief – November 2020
This month’s Costs Brief features High Court ruling on ‘significant development’ plus the latest in the recovery plan for civil and family courts and tribunals. We remain open for business with all of our team working remotely and fully operational so if you need any help with anything on the…
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Harmans Costs Brief – Q&As
This month’s Costs Brief features some Q&As that came up in our recent online costs clinic that we thought might be useful to share. If you’ve got any other costs queries just let us know and we’ll be happy to help. We’ve also covered the new…
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The cap on recoverable costs of costs budgeting excludes VAT
Judgment from Senior Costs Judge Gordon-Saker.
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Harmans Costs Brief – July 2020
It’s been some time since our last update and we just wanted to let you know how things have been going and take this opportunity to invite you to our virtual costs clinic later this month. A number of our clients have been paperless for sometime so…
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Harmans Costs Brief – December 2019
Well that went quickly, welcome to the final Costs Brief of 2019 and in fact the decade! Partner and Costs Lawyer Mathew Knight takes a look at costs budgeting decisions on paper during the substantive case and how this affects the recovery of costs. We…
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Costs budgeting decisions – impact on recovery of costs
In the case of Easteye Ltd -v- Malhotra Property Investments Ltd & Ors [2019] EWHC 2820 (Ch), Deputy District Judge Pescod made an order without an oral hearing in relation to costs management in this action on 3 May 2019. At paragraph 5 of his…
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Harmans Costs Brief – October 2019
This month’s Costs Brief features an in-depth look at some recent judgments which caught the eye of Gary Knight. Plus there are details of the latest CPR update which clarifies the cut off between budgeted and incurred costs. We hope you find the latest Costs…
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Harmans Costs Brief – June 2019
This month’s Costs Brief covers two significant rulings – the recent High Court ruling on Proportionality which saw costs slashed and the Allen ruling which rejected a challenge to a costs lawyer’s delegation of work to non-costs lawyers on their staff. Also featured are the latest amendments…
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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…
