All Costs, fees and funding articles – Page 51
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Disclosure reform will tackle 'excessive' cost, say top general counsel
Disclosure reforms next month will combat the ‘wasted and excessive’ costs of the current regime, corporate clients asserted last week. Discussing the reforms at a GC 100 seminar, in-house lawyers were broadly optimistic that the mandatory disclosure pilot coming into force in January would yield the results they wanted. Richard ...
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Fixed costs pilot set for take-off in business courts in 2019
Jackson’s blueprint for fixed costs in Business and Property Courts may finally be coming to fruition.
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Price transparency rules 'not about giving firms a hard time' - SRA chief
Extra requirements central to discussions at SRA compliance conference.
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Opinion
'We will work with you': government's essential criminal legal aid review
Government will look for close cooperation with the criminal defence profession in the new year, says justice minister Lucy Frazer QC.
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SRA plans U-turn on revealing costs of Leigh Day case
But regulator still refusing to publish full details of correspondence with the Ministry of Defence.
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Opinion
NHS must be helped to learn from its mistakes
Health professionals need more resources to cut the number of errors that result in negligence claims.
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Court shows no mercy to late filer who took 'eye off the ball'
Judge enforces strong penalty for non-compliance caused by solicitor being away on business.
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City firms claimed £14m costs in oligarch case
High Court judgment ruled last week that the English courts did not have jurisdiction to hear fraud claims.
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Price transparency era begins today - but clients urged not to be blinded by costs
Law Society wants public to be equally concerned with regulatory protection and service levels.
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Boxing guru loses £922k costs fight with former lawyers
Frank Warren sought to argue he was not liable for agreements transferred to another firm.
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Litigation funder closes doors to new cases
Calunius says £100m fund has completed its investments and surprises market with no plans for successor.
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Feature
Costs office ‘not a sausage-making machine’
Master Peter Haworth hopes e-bills will be introduced to lessen the workload of the Senior Courts Costs Office, but this won’t be any time soon.
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Solicitors win on appeal over status of costs bills
Separate billing for profit costs and disbursements did not prevent invoices from being statute bills.
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Loss of £400,000 Citizens Advice grant would be a ‘disaster’
Suffolk County Council plan to scrap the grant as part of their 2019/20 budget proposals.
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Opinion
Civil justice reform needs more data
When seeking the basis for future law reform what should be our rule of reason?
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QOCS judgment muddies the waters on costs-shifting
Lawyers believe issue raised by litigation following cycling accident may have to be determined at a higher level.
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Opinion
Picking over the proportionality rule
The case of Reynolds v One Stop Stores Ltd has added flesh to the bare bones of the proportionality rule, but there is still a long way to go.
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Student wins fees appeal against closing firm that 'left him in the lurch'
Court finds firm on brink of closure did not give reasonable notice about ending its retainer.
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One month to go: countdown on price publishing rules
Firms also told they can download ‘digital badge’ which will itself become mandatory.