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On a Sunny Friday afternoon at 2 pm CMC - we waited almost 3 months for the cost budget hearing, the Judge decided he was not able to consider costs and adjourned the issue to another time. Great to see this Rule in practice.

On another costs budgeting hearing, "off the record" the Judge said that costs budgets were a waste of time. We agree!

The Rule expects solicitors to use a crystal ball to predict the costs of litigation. It is also a time wasting exercise and trying to charge time to a file which involves several issues across the "Phases" points to an extreme lack of knowledge of the entire costs procedure. It’s not solicitors that need training its whoever sanctioned this rule.

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