Tag: budgeted costs
Application to Vary an Approved Costs Budget
Partner and Costs Lawyer Gary Knight recently received instructions to assist with an application to vary an approved costs budget, he found the process of…
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…
