All Costs, fees and funding articles – Page 85
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News
Boom for costs work
Introduction of budgeting leads to expanded practices, says Association of Costs Lawyers.
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Opinion
Infant claims: a big problem
District judges must toe the line and allow success fees in infant claims.
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News
Dyson sucks up Mitchell guidance criticism
Lord Dyson and Jackson LJ seek new guidelines on three cases surrounding relief from sanctions for non-compliance.
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Opinion
Mitchell: the problem with guidance
An insider’s view on the appeals that will clarify the post-Mitchell case management landscape.
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Feature
Featured broadcast: Mitchell sanctions damaging to litigation – Society
The Law Society calls for clear guidance on costs sanctions and a re-emphasis of parts of the Mitchell judgment. Featuring a broadcast of proceedings, courtesy of Sky News.
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News
Battle lines drawn at CoA for Mitchell triple-header
Lord Dyson, joined on the bench by Lord Justice Jackson, will hear three cases today and tomorrow concerning relief from sanctions.
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News
Urgent costs reviews if hourly rates are cut
John Bramhall says current drive to hire paralegals may end if the GHR changes.
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Opinion
Portal problems
Defendants complain of behaviour deliberately designed to avoid EL/PL portal.
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News
New hourly rates to hit firms using paralegals
Value per hour that can be recovered is vulnerable to a cut under the new guidelines, experts tell the Gazette.
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Feature
Chartwell – relief from sanctions
A judgment deriving from an exception to the general rule on efficiency and proportionality.
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News
Buffer rule for deadlines ‘good common sense’
Written prior agreements can now be extended by up to 28 days.
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Opinion
It’s impossible to solve the Mitchell riddle
Jackson wanted consistency; lawyers want common sense. The two are incompatible.
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News
Scots embrace funding reforms to repel English threat
DBAs and QOCS to be introduced north of the border.
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News
Appeal court set for triple Mitchell showdown
Master of the rolls to hear appeals that should finally offer clarity over post-Jackson landscape.
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Feature
The death of ambush litigation
Some solicitors do not properly appreciate the importance of getting their costs statements in on time in the tough new compliance environment.
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News
Judge shuns Mitchell stance in ‘interests of justice’
Eady: wrong to have justice ‘compromised merely for the sake of discipline or the marking of disapproval’.
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Law Report
Costs
The Bar Standards Board sought judicial review of the Disciplinary Tribunal of the Council of the Inns of Court’s decision awarding the interested party non-practising barrister costs.