Tag: hourly rates
NHS trust loses costs battle after arguing solicitors’ skills were not needed once counsel was instructed
The NHS Resolution, representing the Paying Party (Defendant) in a recent costs assessment tried a novel approach to the challenge of the Claimant’s hourly rates,…
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…
Mathew Knight discusses the importance of specialist costs knowledge when dealing with defamation claims
What is defamation? Defamation is the publication to a third party of a statement about you which has caused or is likely to cause serious…
Matthew Harman discusses hourly rates in clinical negligence cases
JXA v Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (2018) EWHC 1747 (QB) It is not often these days that Claimant lawyers put their heads above…
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…
Hourly rates in mesothelioma cases
Claims for mesothelioma victims can be differentiated fairly easily from the generality of personal injury matters and historically there has been a degree of acceptance…
