Costs Barrister

Making crime pay

One of the delights of having a common law practice at the Bar, is the wide variety of work that

Regretfully, I had to change my plans this weekend as our village’s Brexit street party, to celebrate the country’s liberation

Yesterday argument concluded in the Court of Appeal at 5pm, in the case of Herbert v HH Law Limited. The

For seven hundred years the common law courts set their faces against strangers to a case financially supporting its litigation

Costs budgeting and costs management has evolved over the last 5 years substantially. Evolution it should be noted is often

One dilemma that arises from time to time is how a court is to balance the competing considerations which can

Assuming that the issues have been sufficiently telegraphed to the putatively dishonest party, how is fundamental dishonesty to be defined?

It is sad to say, that fraud is present in a significant number of cases in personal injury litigation. Whether

One of the vagaries of the costs management regime, is that it has to function in the real world where

2019 is about to begin with the Navy tussling with asylum seekers in the Channel, the Brexit obsessed political class