All Costs, fees and funding articles – Page 68
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News
Expert witnesses ‘chasing’ solicitors for late payment
Survey shows room for improvement in relationship between solicitors and experts.
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Feature
Coming to terms with fixed costs
Richard Allen considers what solicitors need to do if the proposed fixed-costs regime materialises.
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News
Firms will not be forced to publish prices at this stage: SRA
Regulator wants practices to consider what pricing information they could publish on their own websites and in SRA’s digital register.
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News
High Court rejects attempt to end case over ‘wrong’ court fee payment
Claim thrown out in case surrounding alleged incorrect court fees.
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News
‘There was no money’: MoJ called in consultants to help control spending
Permanent secretary indicates to MPs that fee hikes affected case volumes, amid suggestions that SMEs have been priced out of the courts.
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News
Clin neg fixed costs limit set to be £25k
Department of Health appears to have climbed down from proposal to fix costs for claims up to £250,000.
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News
High Court orders disclosure in bitter costs battle
EMW Law LLP seeking access to documents showing payments to sole practitioner firm for which it acted as agent.
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News
NHSLA paying out 76% of claims after proceedings issued
Claimants say figures prove cases are being drawn out unnecessarily.
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News
Budget should not 'fetter' costs, judge rules
Decision rejects argument that costs less than approved budget should be assessed as claimed.
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Opinion
At last we will know how proportionality works
Damaging uncertainty about the Jackson rule has gone on for long enough.
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News
Newspapers furious as Lords vote to make them foot legal costs
Editors say Investigatory Powers Bill has been ‘hijacked’ to implement dormant Leveson legislation.
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News
Jackson urges ‘culture change’ on ‘profitable' disclosure
Civil Justice Council chair presses for action on damages-based agreements.
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News
Irwin Mitchell attacks tabloid's £29m NHS fees claim
Firm says media used ‘selective’ figures to suggest costs were almost as high as damages awarded.
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News
New bill of costs to be compulsory from October 2017
The new bill has been the subject of a voluntary pilot in the Senior Courts Costs Office since October last year.
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News
£2m litigation funding costs can be recovered
Judge says principle of recovering ‘other costs’ should extend to costs of obtaining third-party legal funding.
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Feature
Civil procedure – party conduct and costs sanctions
What happens when the expectation that parties conduct themselves in a sensible and accountable manner is undermined?
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News
Briggs: online court will take the ‘A’ out of ‘ADR’
Lord Justice Briggs says mediation will become the cultural norm – and suggests £25k limit could be raised if his blueprint works.
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News
Labour delays justice review until summer 2017
Party’s justice spokesman commits to abolition of employment tribunal fees.