Tag: assessment of costs
Harmans Costs Brief – January 2017
An industry award, a brand new office, two costs seminars, our first exhibition and a team trip to Bruges – 2016 was a very busy year…
Home or Away?
The ‘local solicitor argument’ One of the most common, and possibly one of the strongest arguments deployed by a paying party on an assessment of…
Sony Communications International and SSH Communications Security Corporation [2016] EWHC 2985 (Pat)
Sony Communications International and SSH Communications Security Corporation [2016] EWHC 2985 (Pat) – Mr Roger Wyland QC sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge 24/11/2016…
Legal Costs update by Gary Knight
Whilst December may have been the holiday season with thoughts of well earned down time with family and friends there were still matters to be…
Partner and Costs Lawyer Mat Knight asks when is it reasonable to recover costs of two separate firms acting for multiple Claimants in a case?
In the case of (1) Jane Rebecca Ong, (2) Alexander Ong, (3) Nicholas Ong and (4) Jordana Ong –v- Ong Siauw Ping [2015] EWHC 3258…
The application of the “new” proportionality test on an assessment of costs
It has been sometime since the “new” test for proportionality was introduced for work undertaken post 1 April 2013 with CPR 44.3(2) stating: “Where the…
