All Costs, fees and funding articles – Page 65
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News
£72,000 bill for £3,000 claim ‘disproportionate’, costs judge insists
Court finds Thompsons Solicitors had not planned ahead for the amount of work clinical negligence claim would require.
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Ex-Leeds Utd MD fails to overturn costs award against fellow solicitor
David Haigh applied to Westminster Magistrates’ Court to bring a private prosecution against Peter Gray.
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News
Be more diverse or we’ll withhold 10% of your fees, IT giant tells firms
US technology company HP issues diversity mandate, telling law firms ‘we can all do better’.
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News
Solicitors to ‘vociferously oppose’ fee cuts
Criminal law groups say Ministry of Justice plans to reform litigators’ graduated fee scheme are ill-conceived.
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News
Solicitors attack MoD compensation plans for soldiers
Law Society says removing legal representation will create a 'David and Goliath' situation.
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News
Dechert’s £16m bill in fraud office case ‘unrealistic’ – judge
Costs assessment of work over probe into mining deals will now move to High Court.
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Truss willing to drop legal aid fee cut – with strings
Law Society sceptical as MoJ announces potential concession on graduated fee schemes.
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News
Automatic strike-out for cases where trial fee unpaid
Hearing fee refunds also being scrapped under changes to Civil Procedure Rules confirmed this month.
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News
Court allows escape from fixed costs after offer accepted late
District judge rejects argument that ruling would open floodgates to applications for indemnity costs.
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News
Lord Justice Jackson takes to the road on fixed costs
Judge ‘keeping an open mind for the time being’ about the type of case that should fall within fixed costs, and the upper limit.
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News
Funding bonanza as litigation investors commit £723m to UK
More businesses are seeking to share the financial risks involved in litigation or arbitration.
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Feature
Judicial costs decisions
Appeal court case re-establishes factors which may lead to judicial intervention over costs.
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Feature
Trade unions: come together
Trade unions are less influential than they were, but remain a critical conduit for justice
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News
Court of Appeal rules claimants out of portal restricted to fixed costs
Lord Justice Briggs says to ‘throw open’ pre-action disclosure applications to assessed costs could create an undesirable level of satellite litigation.
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Opinion
Clin neg fixed fees: can the NHSLA change its ways?
Lawyers on both sides must have their say, but the success of fixed fees will rest on whether the litigation authority can break the habit.
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News
Lawyer groups urge Jackson to rethink fixed costs plans
Proposals dismissed as unjustified and likely to leave successful claimants paying more.
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Fixed costs for clinical negligence: the figures
Full rundown of the proposed options for claimant lawyers under the new scheme.
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News
Clin neg fixed costs plans unveiled as Hunt targets ‘unscrupulous’ firms
Campaigners claim proposals to restrict costs would ‘seriously harm access to justice and patient safety’.
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Feature
Costs protection: warnings and Calderbank offers
The Court of Protection has exhibited a robust approach to the exercise of its costs jurisdiction.