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Harmans Costs Brief – September 2016
Harmans are out and about this autumn! We’re busy preparing for the APIL clinical negligence conference at The Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, South Wales at the end of this month and Matthew Harman is also on the road, he will be a guest speaker…
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Matthew Harman named as speaker at Law Society commercial litigation conference on 10 October 2016
Have you booked your space on the Law Society commercial litigation conference yet? This event is purely focused on costs and funding in commercial litigation and will assess the impact of the Jackson reforms as well as examining the changes ahead. Lord Justice Jackson, the…
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Harmans Costs Brief – February 2016
Costs Brief February is here! Where else could we start but Gary Knight’s scathing response to Lord Justice Jackson’s vision of fixed costs. There’s also a legal costs update of key cases, the summary of the Civil Courts Structure Review interim report from Lord Justice Briggs plus we cover…
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Fixed costs – the time is now? Gary Knight discusses below
So sayeth the Lord – well Lord Justice Jackson in his recent IPA Annual Lecture given on 28 January 2016. It has appeared inevitable in recent months that some form of fixed costs scheme will be introduced if the powers that be have their way…
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Unbundling: the rise of litigants acting in person with Solicitors working under a limited retainer
Lord Justice Jackson, giving the main judgment of the court in Minkin v Lesley Landsberg (Practising As Barnet Family Law) [2015] EWCA Civ 1152 held that the solicitor was not under a duty to give the broader advice or warnings for which the claimant contended.…
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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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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
