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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 – 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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Precedent H guidance notes updated
The guidance notes for Precedent H have been updated to support the changes made in the 109th update of the CPR. These draw the line between costs incurred up to and including the date of the first costs management hearing (incurred costs) and costs to…
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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…
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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…
