Tag: bill of costs
Harmans Costs Brief – March 2019
This month’s Costs Brief has been taken over by Gary Knight who looks at some recent costs related decisions and highlights, among other things, the…
Legal costs update by Gary Knight
As prepared by Partner and Costs Lawyer Gary Knight for the next edition of Litigation Funding magazine. October 2018 saw a flurry of costs related…
Harmans Costs Brief – December 2018
In this month’s Costs Brief Gary Knight analyses two recent costs cases, one in which solicitors were given another reason to have sleepless nights and…
No “good reasons” to depart from budget – Part 2
Whether a reduction in the hourly rates applied to the incurred costs within a bill is a good reason to apply the same reduced rates…
Whether a reduction in the hourly rates applied to the incurred costs within a bill is a good reason to apply the same reduced rates to the ‘budgeted’ costs (i.e. future costs) in the same bill
This question was considered by Master Nagalingam at a detailed assessment hearing which took place on 11 & 12 October 2017 in the case of…
Fixed Costs, Budgets and the Bill of Costs
Partner and Costs Lawyer Gary Knight discusses the implications of Lord Justice Jackson’s Review of Civil Litigation Costs on how solicitors recover costs on behalf…