Tag: costs
Court of Appeal: Statute bills do not have to include profit costs and disbursements
In March 2017, Master James gave Solicitors one more reason to have sleepless nights when dealing with the matter of: Richard John Slade (trading as…
Pound for Pound Orders: LKH -v- TQA AL Z [2018] EWHC 2436 (Fam)
In July 2018, Mr Justice Holman injuncted a husband from paying any further money (whether for their profit costs or disbursements) to any firm of…
Harmans Costs Brief – September 2018: asbestos focus
This month’s Costs Brief has an asbestos focus, Partner and Costs Lawyer Steve Jones discusses hourly rates in mesothelioma cases and how you can make…
Deadline tomorrow 24 August for submissions for LASPO Part 2 government review
Part 2 of the LASPO Act: Litigation Funding and Costs MoJ Survey – DEADLINE TOMORROW 24 AUGUST 2018. The Ministry of Justice is undertaking 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…
