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This gives me a little difficulty. You cannot condone padding out bills and claiming higher hourly rates than commensurate with he fee earner undertaking the work. By the sounds of it this is was an extreme case where even the local costs judges had started to take an interest. He should have taken the hint at that stage surely. On the other hand, agreeing costs is a negotiation. If the firm had put a bill in for a quid they would have probably have been offered 50p. It goes with the territory.