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BAILII Citation Number: [2020] EWHC B18 (Costs)
Senior Costs Judge’s approach to a claim from Central Funds with guidance given as to rates and items that can/cannot be recovered on assessment. https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Costs/2020/B18.html
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Matthew Harman discusses hourly rates in clinical negligence cases
JXA v Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (2018) EWHC 1747 (QB) It is not often these days that Claimant lawyers put their heads above the parapet on hourly rates. That is in part in case a decision is given which will be thrown back…
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Guideline Hourly Rates: Should We Still Be Stuck in 2010?
While Guideline Hourly Rates (GHRs) are taken directly from The Senior Courts Cost Office (SCCO) ‘Guide to the Summary Assessment of Costs’ where it is apparent that the rates are only a guide – and only in relation to summarily assessed costs – all practitioners…
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Guideline Hourly Rates remain at 2010 levels
The Guideline Hourly Rates (GHR) are to remain at their 2010 levels indefinitely after the Master of the Rolls decided there was no prospect of the evidence required being produced in order to change them. Last July, following a year-long study by the Civil Justice…
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Costs Seminar Resources: Part 2
If you couldn’t be there on the day here’s Matthew Harman’s notes and hand outs from our breakfast seminar at The Law Society plus Roger Mallalieu’s notes. Harmans talk 10.04.15 – notes Example budget Harmans talk -Documentation is support Explanation of costs for CCMC Costs…
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Harmans Costs Brief – September 2014
Costs Brief is back after a summer break and as usual is full of the latest industry news and comment on Costs. We’ve got an article on requesting oral hearings in relation to the provisional assessment process, details of the proposed fixed report fees for whiplash…
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Lord Dyson: Lack of evidence means no new guideline hourly rates
No increase to guideline hourly rates (but no reduction either) and Qualified Costs Lawyers to be treated as Grade B and C where justified. http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ghr-mor-decision-july2104.pdf
