All Costs, fees and funding articles – Page 3
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NewsBarrister wins £250 top-up for 'entire weekend' of work
Legal aid practitioner had challenged decision to award him £400 plus VAT for grounds of appeal.
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NewsFormer Liverpool footballer's appeal bid 'totally without merit'
Mr Justice Mellor finds Steve Finnan's bankruptcy petition appeal ‘was at all times…completely hopeless’.
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NewsFunder penalised for failed challenge to Mastercard settlement
CAT orders Innsworth to pay extra legal costs incurred by class representative Walter Merricks.
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NewsFirm fails in counterclaim against RTA client after negligence case dismissed
It is not sufficient for solicitors to plead simply that they were misled, says judge turning down appeal over dismissal of counterclaim.
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NewsSociety concerned by tight deadline for fixed costs consultation
Civil Procedure Rule Committee invites feedback for interim implementation stocktake of fixed recoverable costs.
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News‘Gross exaggeration’: Court slashes firm's costs after 'inexplicable' error
Firm accepted costs were too high but explained this as an ‘inadvertent oversight’.
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NewsSupreme Court dismisses appeal over costs order currency in multi-billion-dollar arbitration case
‘No reason to award costs in this case other than in sterling,’ five justices agree.
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NewsHospital hit with costs penalty after wrongly alleging dishonesty
Defendants should not be given ‘free tilt’ at raising fundamental dishonesty accusations, judge rules.
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OpinionA new costs war begins
Paying parties have wasted no time in citing Mazur in their points of dispute.
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NewsBarrister wins £9,000 uplift in murder appeal fee
Senior costs judge finds KC’s ‘reasonable renumeration’ is £9,000 more than that decided by determining officer.
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NewsSRA to pay £27,000 over wrongful dishonesty charge
Tribunal rejects suggestion that SRA adjudicators acted independently of regulator.
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NewsThousands of workers who won at Employment Tribunal yet to see a penny
Investigation finds that nearly £36m out of £46m in ET awards over the past decade remains unpaid.
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NewsLabour ‘planning to bring back employment tribunal fees’
TUC warns that reintroducing a charge would ’price many low-paid workers out of justice’.
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NewsCall for consistency on unclaimed damages in collective actions
Access to Justice Foundation says there are no rules for unclaimed funds in settlement agreements.
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NewsLegal aid lawyers spend quarter of day on unpaid work
Landmark research reveals hidden and non-chargeable cost of managing cases and contracts.
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NewsLandmark ruling clarifies scope of damages-based agreements
Firm loses out on £1.6m in fees as victorious litigant declares that ‘solicitors should not have too much skin in the game’.
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NewsFirm loses out on costs for ‘unreasonable conduct’
Failures relating to child arrangements order ’compromised the fairness of the litigation’.
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NewsTribunal denies Proudman £350,000 costs over ‘doomed prosecution’
Barrister who called out ‘boy’s club’ attitude in the profession claimed she was ’improperly pursued’ by the Bar Standards Board.
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NewsCosts order overturned over litigator's absent practising certificate
’The person conducting litigation must be authorised to do so, or fall within one of the exempt categories,’ rules Mr Justice Sheldon.
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OpinionClipping the wings of class action lawyers
Claimant lawyers will protest that the collective actions regime is still in its infancy and it is too soon for change. They may find themselves shouting into the wind.