All Costs, fees and funding articles – Page 35
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NewsCollege escapes costs over 'slave trade' memorial case
Judge says case had to be brought before consistory court as differences of opinion were 'totally unbridgeable'.
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NewsAlterations made to remodelled housing emergency scheme
Changes include earlier legal advice, specialist support contracts and grant funding for legal aid training contracts.
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NewsNo future in criminal defence, juniors tell Law Society
'What other business is still charging 1995 rates?’ asks respondent in Chancery Lane poll.
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NewsLegal aid action could escalate in three weeks' time
Criminal Bar Association will ballot members on 11 June after consulting barristers, heads of chambers and circuit leaders.
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News'Too fair, too kind, too gentle': legal aid solicitors demand tougher action
Several criminal defence practitioners are boycotting burglary work but want to widen the scope of cases.
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NewsEntrepreneur loses contempt appeal in £200,000 dispute with Farrer & Co
Julie Meyer, 55, in ‘deliberate and cynical breach’ of court orders, Court of Appeal rules.
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NewsRussian can sell Belgravia mansion to fund legal fees
Fugitive may ‘in principle’ sell properties to pay Mishcon and Greenberg, judge rules.
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NewsSRA should keep costs protection, Supreme Court rules
Regulator had intervened in case raising concerns that it might be unable to bring some prosecutions in future.
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NewsNo returns: Disruption minimal as backup helpline attracts 19 volunteers
Trial hearings disrupted on the day running at well under 50 - and falling, MoJ data shows.
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NewsBar to ballot on escalating legal aid action
Criminal Bar Association says many members have signalled willingness and desire to adopt 'more disruptive forms of action'.
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NewsJustice committee chair raises doubts about fixed costs in clin neg claims
Sir Bob Neill says providers will be forced out of running smaller claims.
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NewsChancery Lane 'not surprised' by escalating legal aid action
London criminal defence solicitors will refuse to take on 'loss-making' burglary cases from 25 May.
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News'Deal with this problem': lord chief wades into legal aid dispute
Lord Burnett of Maldon raises capacity concerns as pressure mounts to bring more cases to the criminal courts.
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NewsCounsel hit with five million pages fail in fee challenge
Seven barristers fail in challenge to Legal Aid Agency over fraud trial.
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NewsSolicitors vote to escalate legal aid action
Dozens of criminal defence practitioners will refuse to take on low-paid work starting with burglary cases from 25 May.
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NewsFormer clients hit with indemnity costs for ‘hopeless’ appeal
Court of Appeal awards London firms Hassan Khan & Co and The Khan Partnership indemnity costs.
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NewsHS2 protestor held in contempt told he must face costs penalty
Court of Appeal rules out placing repeat offender in a ‘special category’ because he was protesting.
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NewsStudy reveals misunderstandings over early disclosure scheme
Research suggests greater pre-charge engagement could divert many cases away from trial and reduce court backlog.
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NewsJudge blasts ‘wasteful’ lawyers who filed 6,000-page bundles
Mr Justice Andrew Baker laments a ‘failure’ to focus on what was sensibly required to do justice.
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NewsMeans test timetable 'could be brought forward' due to inflation
Ministry of Justice chief says income and capital thresholds could be reviewed sooner but annual uprating unlikely.