Costs Barrister

The road not taken

For many years the questions of alternative funding and its availability has been central to disputes about the recovery of

I had an entertaining trip to Manchester on Friday, in order to speak at the ACL conference in the Hilton

I have just finished putting the final touches to the paper on QOCS I have been asked to deliver at

It has been cynically observed in the author’s presence, that insurance companies only care about fraud, and costs, and only about care

A central part of the LASPO 2012 reforms, was the introduction of Qualified One Way Costs Shifting (QOCS) as part

I have just returned from another outing to the Liverpool County Court, where I am a frequent visitor. It is

Sometimes a defendant makes a shrewdly judged part 36 offer, which is refused or ignored by the claimant or there is

Cases about QOCS seem to arrive like buses, in a pack. In court 72 today, the Court of Appeal handed

One of the areas of the LASPO reforms which remains notoriously “rough around the edges”, is the subject matter of

Solicitor and own client assessments under section 70 of the Solicitors Act 1974 used to be rare beasts. It used