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I rarely met Counsel who understood contentious costs. And they were the ones arguing the detail after the trial!
"Costs", to our Learned Friends, simply concluded when a cheque landed in their genteel hands.
The real truth of "fixed costs" enveloping most routine work is that the most of f the DDJs and DJs just don't get "assessment" of costs and cannot cope with it. Most are matrimonial lawyers.
He gives the game away when he says the "There will be winners and losers". Yes, and we all know what happened with His Lordships last lot of litigation reforms!