All Costs, fees and funding articles – Page 83
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OpinionCosts: a harsh lesson on proportionality
The slashing of a successful claimant’s costs casts some light on the new rule.
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News‘Reasonable’ costs bill halved under proportionality test
Senior costs judge had originally set costs at £167,389 after a privacy action against the Mirror Group settled for £20,000.
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NewsEmployment tribunal cases withdrawn over ‘off-putting’ fees
Claimants are required to pay separate fees to issue their claim and have it heard.
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News‘Deadline slips’ for clinical negligence fixed fees
Personal injury lawyers welcome apparent acknowledgement that 1 October start date is not achievable.
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NewsCourt rules on QOCS protection in appeals
High Court judgment clears up area of confusion over costs protection in personal injury.
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NewsSlaughter allowed to keep £2m costs in liquidation case
The Court of Appeal rules that legal fees agreed by an adminstrator cannot not be challenged by liquidators of the company.
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NewsPC fee represents ‘poor value’ – LSB report
Research shows lack of awareness of what practising certificate fee pays for.
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OpinionHow fixed costs are looking
The more things develop, the more one gets the sense that the reality is going to be less radical than first feared.
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NewsDispute over £4,000 repair bill racks up £300,000 in costs
‘Disproportionate’ a ‘wholly inadequate’ adjective to describe costs incurred in dispute, judge says.
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NewsBriggs LJ: online court limit ‘may have to start at £10k’
Civil courts reformer appears at London policy event with Jackson LJ, who is standing firm on fixed costs.
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NewsNo more costs reform without evidence, lawyers urge
Fixed costs should not be extended until we know what impact reforms such as budgeting have had so far, ACL conference hears.
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NewsNew-style bill of costs ‘fails’ to deliver benefits
New spreadsheet-based bill was used by claimants in a case which settled last month.
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NewsCFAs ‘validly assigned’, judge rules
Judgment will be welcomed by firms that bought up thousands of pre-Jackson cases.
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NewsHigh Court allows advocacy fees for case settled on the day
Recorder refused to award fee, saying the case was settled before the final contested hearing had commenced.
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NewsAPIL 2016: no retreat on personal injury reform, says justice minister
Lord Faulks offers few olive branches to PI sector in keynote speech.
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OpinionSome good news for claimant PI lawyers
Jackson LJ may have done something that will meet with approval.
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NewsCrucial privacy costs case heading to Supreme Court
Newspaper argues costs recoverability incompatible with European law.
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NewsJackson: let’s end ‘deadlock’ on new bill of costs
‘We still have a bill of costs that was identified as being seriously deficient many years ago.’
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NewsImmigration case fees hiked by up to 500%
Justice minister Dominic Raab says it is no longer fair that the taxpayer be expected to fund proceedings.
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OpinionBite the bullet and raise the court fees cap
If the courts must generate cash, the £10,000 limit is simply too low.