All Costs, fees and funding articles – Page 92
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Opinion
Avoiding costs complaints: unusual amounts
Get the client’s approval in writing to every step taken in order to limit the risk of complaints later on.
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News
Commons whiplash inquiry finds for claimants
MPs today warn the government that its plans to cut the cost of whiplash claims will impair access to justice and leave the door open for claims management companies.
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News
City lawyers plead to keep budgeting exemption
City lawyers are at loggerheads with the senior judiciary over mandatory costs budgeting for high-value commercial cases.
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Opinion
Avoiding costs disputes with clients
The next growth industry for costs disputes will be between solicitor and client.
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Opinion
Lawyers need to think tactically on costs
A few months in to the new costs budgeting regime, many litigators have already had to knuckle down and complete Precedent H
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Feature
Assessing costs in clinical negligence cases
Clinical negligence practitioners on both the claimant and defendant sides are waiting with bated breath to see how courts will deal with arguments on proportionality.
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Opinion
Tactics emerge in costs budgeting
Some interesting points emerged in relation to costs budgeting at IBC Legal’s Impact of Jackson conference last week. By now, many litigators will have had to knuckle down and complete Precedent H – the form through which they must provide the opposing party with an estimate of their costs in ...
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Feature
Specialist courts under microscope on costs budgeting
Exempting mandatory costs budgeting for claims in excess of £2m may be ‘unnecessary and inappropriate’, a newly established sub-group of the Civil Procedure Rule committee has suggested. An intervention from the Judicial Office in February ensured that high-value commercial cases would be exempt from impending Jackson reforms. It meant that ...
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News
‘Last chance saloon’ on costs
A leading academic has warned solicitors that judges will grant no more latitude to those who default on their case budgets. Professor Dominic Regan of City Law School told the Liverpool Law Society conference that firms exceeding their budget will be ‘in the deepest of trouble’. Regan, who assisted Lord ...
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News
Jackson LJ to rule on his own reforms
Lord Justice Jackson is one of five High Court judges appointed to hear appeals arising from his costs reforms.
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News
LSB relies on regulators to see off DBA ‘mis-selling’ fear
The Legal Services Board will not introduce specific guidance for damages-based agreements
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Feature
Costs management
In January 2010 Lord Justice Jackson published his Review of Civil Litigation Costs Final Report. The core recommendations are an interlocking package, and most were implemented on 1 April 2013 in the Civil Procedure (Amendment Rules) 2013, SI 262.
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News
Expert report warns government to hold off RTA portal extension
Government plans to extend the RTA portal from next year were today dealt a blow by one of its own advisers.
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News
Portal protestors issue letter before action
Personal injury lawyers have started a process that could lead to a judicial review into reforms planned for the Road Traffic Accident Portal next April.
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News
New portal fees threaten access to justice, says Society
Thousands of personal injury solicitors face uncertain futures after the government unveiled plans to slash fees for road traffic accident work.