Costs budgeting 2017
On 16th October 2017 I am speaking at the Law Society Commercial Litigation Conference in Chancery Lane…
Hard times
The Civil Proceedings Fees Order 2008 amongst other horrors, provides a set of convoluted provisions for remission of court…
The Imitation Game
QUOCS (or QOCS as some term it) is one of the more sensible aspects of the LASPO…
Your flexible friend
An interesting and potentially lucrative area of work for practitioners in the field of consumer rights can…
Loathsome reptiles
One of the few intangible benefits of the Credit Crunch and subsequent recession, was to make…
Non party costs and credit hire
One of the other areas of work that keeps me busy, is credit hire. The gift…
Winter has come
The clouds closed in today, the temperature plunged and the heavens opened. A sure sign that summer…
And the last enemy to be destroyed shall be Death
Capacity to make a contract arises as in issue in costs disputes, when a paying party wishes to…
Costs budgeting after Harrison II
The second issue that was debated in the case of Harrison v University Hospitals and Coventry…
Costs budgeting after Harrison I
The most significant decision in the last four years on costs budgeting was handed down by…