All Costs, fees and funding articles – Page 91
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Feature
Variation of budgets – part 1
Christopher Lethem considers an important aspect of the post-Jackson regime.
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News
Guideline hourly rates survey ‘important for all firms’
Decision on costs to be made next year by master of the rolls Lord Dyson.
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Opinion
Guideline rates: why solicitors must engage
It really is in the profession’s interests to make sure the new guideline hourly rates reflect commercial reality.
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Feature
Costs and litigants in person
Ian Besford outlines the rules and case law on costs for a growing proportion of litigants.
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News
CoA punishes defendant that refused ADR invitation
Post-Jackson clampdown continues with latest Court of Appeal judgment
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Feature
Predictive coding: embracing the new
Law firms cannot afford to ignore the use of machine-learning technology to control costs.
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Opinion
Costs benefit
Rulings since the Jackson reforms have confirmed time and again the importance of complying with the new rules to the letter.
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News
Rates consultation coming next month, reveals judge
The legal profession has a month to offer its views on guideline hourly rates.
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News
Battle lines drawn over mesothelioma costs
Personal injury sector at loggerheads over liability for mesothelioma claims.
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Opinion
Bar plays by different rules
Members of the profession may not know that they can be out of pocket paying counsel’s fees when the court has determined that those fees are unreasonable.
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News
Ramsey: I'll change Jackson if necessary
Team to review success of costs reforms six months after implementation.
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Opinion
Cobbetts undertakers count their money
Insolvency practitioners collect millions in fees while creditors are often left with pennies. Will the government act?
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Opinion
Defamation costs: lessons from the PI world
Last Friday the government unveiled its plans to bring in costs protection in defamation cases. The proposed scheme would be similar to the qualified one-way costs shifting (QOCS) regime that came in into force in personal injury in April, but with some important differences. In particular, in defamation, QOCS will ...
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News
Scotland’s ‘Jackson’ proposes DBAs and QOCS
A review of civil litigation funding in Scotland has drawn many of the same conclusions as Jackson LJ.
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Feature
New Civil Procedure Rules: handmaid or mistress?
Indulgence can no longer be granted where parties fail to comply with their procedural obligations.
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Feature
Changes to the Pre-Action Protocol
The Pre-Action Protocol for personal injury claims with a value of less than £10,000 arising from road traffic accidents applies to accidents occurring after 30 April 2010, when the protocol, Practice Direction 8B and the fixed costs in part 45 came into force.
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Feature
DBAs: greater need for expert early case assessment
It is crucial that prospective claimants get an ‘early case assessment’ of the potential scale of any settlement under Jackson’s new damages-based agreements.
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Feature
Relief from sanctions in costs budgeting
How the courts are dealing with applications for relief from sanctions imposed under Lord Justice Jackson’s new costs management rules?
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Opinion
Cracking the whip on costs
Judges have been instructed to take a tough line on costs budgeting rules.
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News
City clashes with judiciary over budgeting exemption
City lawyers are at loggerheads with the senior judiciary over mandatory costs budgeting