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Harmans Costs Brief – October 2016
Welcome to the October issue of Costs Brief. We’re busy preparing for our next seminar at The Law Society in London, date to be confirmed imminently, so watch this space! As usual, we’ve also covered the latest industry news including a costs update from Partner…
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Lord Dyson returns to 39 Essex Chambers after retiring as Master of the Rolls
Lord Dyson has returned to 39 Essex Chambers following his retirement as Master of the Rolls. A 30-year judicial career culminated in Lord Dyson being appointed MR and the Head of Civil Justice in 2012. He had previously been appointed as a judge of the…
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Sir Terence Etherton to become next Master of the Rolls
Sir Terence Etherton has been chosen as the next Master of the Rolls and will take up the position in October this year when Lord Dyson retires, it has been announced. Sir Terence has been a High Court judge since January 2001, assigned to the…
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Part 36 indemnity costs trumps fixed costs rules the Court of Appeal
Two low level RTA claims, relating to separate Claimants (Broadhurst and Taylor), were heard together on appeal after opposite decisions were made by judges on whether to equate indemnity costs with fixed costs. The Master of the Rolls, Lord Dyson said that assessed costs should…
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Harmans Costs Brief – May 2016
We only went and won it! Harmans are incredibly proud to have been named Costs Company of the Year at the Modern Claims Awards, you can see some photos from the ceremony in Leeds by clicking the link below. Hot on the heels of our win we…
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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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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 Budgeting Extended to £10m Cases
The Master of the Rolls has recommended a new £10m threshold despite opposition from Commercial Court judges, who wanted to retain the current exemption from budgeting which applies to Commercial Court cases and to cases in the Chancery, Mercantile and Technology and Construction Courts worth…
