Tag: budgeted costs
Harmans Costs Brief – October 2019
This month’s Costs Brief features an in-depth look at some recent judgments which caught the eye of Gary Knight. Plus there are details of the…
Harmans Costs Brief – June 2019
This month’s Costs Brief covers two significant rulings – the recent High Court ruling on Proportionality which saw costs slashed and the Allen ruling which rejected a…
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…
Increased costs budget approved at trial
JSC Mezhdunarodniy Promyshlenniy Bank and Another v Pugachev and Others [2017] EWHC 1853 (Ch) This decision concerned a late Application for an increase of £84,000…
Harman Costs Brief – May 2017
In this issue Costs Lawyer Suzanna Popplewell gives an overview of Proportionality; we look at CFAs and ATE Premiums and also feature a budget preparation…