The shadow of Cassandra

Last year, I wrote a post on the fixed costs regime and how in my opinion…

Assignment: the story continues

The resumed hearing of the appeal in Jones v Spire Health Care will now take place…

Credit hire companies and non party costs Orders

I have been asked on many occasions by insurance companies and their instructed solicitors how one…

Assignment of CFAs: are your retainers bullet proof?

A steady flow of assignment points continue to arise and to cross my desk on a…

Third party costs assessments reconsidered

Third party costs assessments are rare beasts. The context in which they commonly arise is in…

Assignment: the plot thickens

An interesting decision on the issue of assignment of CFAs was handed down this week by…

Facts and figures

The new edition of Litigation Funding comes out this week and I am pleased to note…

Costs lecture 4th March 2016

On Friday 4th March 2016 in Nottingham, I shall be presenting my paper “Costs 2016” with…

The time has come

This week, ended with a flourish with a speech by Jackson LJ (delivered it seems with…

Non party costs orders revisited

An area of costs practice which is becoming increasingly overloaded with authority is the jurisprudence governing…