Costs Law Insights & Updates

NEW RULES ON COSTS BUDGETING & COURT HEARING FEES – Practice Direction 3 E – Civil Procedure Rul

NEW RULES ON COSTS BUDGETING & COURT HEARING FEES Two sets of amendments to the Rules are being implemented in relation to which...

Mar 24, 20173 min read

“The Court will not – the words are mandatory – depart from the budget, absent good reason.” Merrix

WHAT IS THE POINT OF COSTS BUDGETING? (3) We had not anticipated that we would be writing a series of articles on this subject in such...

Mar 3, 20175 min read

Costs Budgeting – A Comprehensive Update – SPH Costing Services Ltd – Costs Lawyers & Law Costs

Costs Budgeting – Update Generally The issue of costs budgeting is one which had its genesis in Jackson LJ’s Final Report of December...

Feb 20, 201712 min read

WHAT IS THE POINT OF COSTS BUDGETING (2)? – MacInnes v Hans Thomas Gross [2017] EWHC 127 (QB)

WHAT IS THE POINT OF COSTS BUDGETING (2)? “One of the main benefits to be gained from the increased work for the parties (and the court)...

Feb 13, 20174 min read

Proportionality of Costs – Savings Advice Ltd and Zinc Consumer Ltd v EDF Energy Customers PLC [2017

PROPORTIONALITY AND ADDITIONAL LIABILITIES – IS BNM DEAD IN THE WATER? A second Master in the Senior Courts Costs Office has declined to...

Jan 24, 20175 min read

Proposed Changes to Advocacy Costs In Crime Matters – Advocate Graduated Fee Scheme (AGFS)

Plans to reform the Advocate Graduated Fee Scheme (AGFS), the Fixed Fee scheme for Defence Advocates who undertake work on legally aided...

Jan 11, 20173 min read

A NEW HOPE ON PROPORTIONALITY – SCCO MASTERS SPLIT ON HOW THE NEW RULES APPLY TO ADDITIONAL LIABILIT

A NEW HOPE ON PROPORTIONALITY – SCCO MASTERS SPLIT ON HOW THE NEW RULES APPLY TO ADDITIONAL LIABILITIES. In a recent decision at the...

Jan 9, 20172 min read

Reasonable ATE premium can still be disproportionate – Martin v Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundati

Reasonable ATE premium can still be disproportionate Whilst the question of recoverable ATE premiums has been the subject of numerous...

Dec 13, 20165 min read

Senior Costs Judge provides insight into decisions on hourly rates, (retrospective) success fees, AT

Senior Costs Judge provides insight into decisions on hourly rates, (retrospective) success fees, ATE premiums and relief from sanctions...

Nov 28, 20165 min read

Court of Appeal clarifies when Fixed Recoverable Costs apply – Qader & Others v Esure Services L

Clarifying Fixed Recoverable Costs – Court of Appeal provides second judgement within a week There has, of late, been much uncertainty...

Nov 17, 20165 min read

MR TERRANCE BIRD v ACORN GROUP LTD – WHICH FIXED COSTS APPLY? [2016] EWCA Civ 1096 (11 November 2016

BIRD v ACORN – WHICH FIXED COSTS APPLY? The Court of Appeal has settled the debate as to which fixed costs apply in cases listed for...

Nov 14, 20163 min read

WHAT IS THE POINT OF COSTS BUDGETING? Merrix v Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust Claim No: A90BM

WHAT IS THE POINT OF COSTS BUDGETING? This is a question often asked rhetorically by practitioners frustrated by the seemingly ever more...

Oct 24, 20168 min read

PAYMENTS ON ACCOUNT OF COSTS – Master Matthews – Ashman v Thomas [2016] EWHC 1810(Ch)

PAYMENTS ON ACCOUNT OF COSTS The decision of Chancery Master Matthews earlier this year in the case of Ashman v Thomas [2016] EWHC...

Oct 6, 20166 min read

FAMILY LAW – INTER PARTES COSTS AWARDED BUT SLASHED ON SUMMARY ASSESSMENT – K v K [2016] EWHC 2002(F

FAMILY LAW – COSTS AWARDED BUT SLASHED ON SUMMARY ASSESSMENT A recent decision of the High Court Family Division serves to demonstrate...

Sep 12, 20166 min read

ADDITIONAL LIABILITIES ARE OUTSIDE THE COSTS BUDGETING PROCESS – Various Claimants v MGN Ltd [2016]

ADDITIONAL LIABILITIES ARE OUTSIDE THE COSTS BUDGETING PROCESS We previously reported on the decision of Master Gordon-Saker in the...

Aug 17, 20163 min read

BELTS AND BRACES ARE BEST – Suriaya Jamadar v Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

BELTS AND BRACES ARE BEST A recent case where perhaps the conducting Solicitor failed to see “the wood for the trees” when deciding not...

Jul 25, 20164 min read

Successful part 36 costs offer gives opportunity to exceed £1500 limit on Provisional Assessment Cos

In Lowin v Portsmouth (reported on Lawtel) Laing J held that the cap of £1500.00 on the profit costs of a provisional assessment under...

Jul 5, 20161 min read

PROPORTIONALITY BITES AGAIN – May & May v Wavell Group PLC & Bizarri [2016] EWHC B16 (Costs)

PROPORTIONALITY BITES AGAIN Lest anyone thought that the decision of the Senior Costs Judge, Master Gordon-Saker, in BNM v MGN (see our...

Jun 20, 20165 min read

“REASONABLY ASSESSED” BILL SLASHED BY HALF ON GROUNDS OF PROPORTIONALITY

SENIOR COSTS JUDGE SLASHES “REASONABLY ASSESSED” BILL BY HALF ON GROUNDS OF PROPORTIONALITY In a decision destined to send shockwaves...

Jun 9, 20164 min read

AMBUSH TACTICS? Hayden v Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust [2016] EWHC 1121(QB)

AMBUSH TACTICS? LATE APPLICATION TO RELY ON SURVEILLANCE EVIDENCE GRANTED BUT AT HIGH COST. An application to rely upon surveillance...

May 18, 20165 min read

Costs Blog

Home

Disclaimer: The content of this blog is provided on a complimentary basis. The opinions expressed do not necessarily represent those of SPH Costing Services Ltd. The content of the blog is not intended to and does not constitute legal advice on any specific matter or generally. Individual Legal advice should be sought from a Lawyer in relation to any specific case or issue. SPH Costing Services Ltd does not accept any responsibility for the correctness of this blog or for any consequences of relying on it.

Legal Costs Lawyers & Law Costs Draftsmen in England & Wales