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Summary of 83rd amendment to CPR
With effect from 6 April 2016 the 83rd amendments to the CPR comes into force. There are some minor but important changes in relation to Costs Management (PD3E): • The costs management rules are amended to provide that only the first page of Precedent H…
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Legal Futures Insight – Personal Injury report
Personal Injury lawyers should check out the latest Legal Futures Insight publication, which looks in depth at their sector, and in particular MedCo, ATE, clinical negligence fixed fees and costs management. Matthew Harman gives his view on the joys and horrors of costs budgeting in PI…
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Costs budgeting
The Judicial Office has agreed to Lord Justice Jackson’s request that there be a temporary break in costs budgeting in clinical negligence cases stating:- “As a temporary measure, to clear a backlog of cases, the Queen’s Bench Masters responsible for the case management of clinical…
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Amending budgets by Nishma Shah
Although currently there is a 3 month reprieve in submitting Precedent H budgets, there are a number of ongoing cases where a budget has been prepared but matters have arisen which require the budget to be amended. The preparation of budgets is still a huge cause of…
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Confronting Costs Management – the Third Annual Harbour Lecture
The Papers presented at the event last night by Lord Justice Jackson and Lord Dyson can now be found at the following link: http://www.harbourlitigationfunding.com/news/confronting-costs-management-the-third-annual-harbour-lecture
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Firms and judges “struggling with costs management”
Smaller law firms are struggling with the demands of budgeting, while larger practices are not as capable as they think, a judicial roundtable organised by the Association of Costs Lawyers (ACL) has heard. Click below to read a white paper from the Association of Costs Lawyers: http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk//launch.aspx?eid=d7fa620c-3d92-4da4-af1f-3b80621fc96d
