Commercial Costs Seminar 26th February 2020
On 26th February 2020 Tom Herbert and I will be speaking at our Commercial Costs 2020 seminar in Ropewalk Chambers in Nottingham starting at 4.30pm. I will be looking principally at non-party costs orders and
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Are all conditional fee agreements contentious business agreements? And if so, how might that effect a client’s right to an assessment of the costs charged by her solicitor under the Solicitors Act 1974? These are
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2020 approaches. A year ago I wrote about my hopes for 2019 and you can read my musings here: http://costsbarrister.co.uk/pro-bono/2019/. Since then politics have changed. This month we have seen Mr Johnson obtain a landslide
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Fixed costs cases tend to resemble London omnibuses, in that after a period of time waiting that seems measured in months, three arrive together. The case of Aldred v Master Tyreese Sulay Alieu Cham [2019]
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Taking up again the role of a modern day Jeremiah, or conversely, John the Baptist, depending on your point of view, about the vexed topic of the ease of funding of personal injury claims post
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One of the interesting developments of the last decade or so has been the rise of behavioural science, its acceptance by the political establishment and its deployment into mainstream policy making by politicians. In 2008,
Continue readingPraisegod Barebone
Some years ago, I took my children on a tour of the Houses of Parliament. I dimly remembered visiting them in my own youth, and as politics has been quite interesting for the last few
Continue readingReceivers’ charges revisited
As I write this post, the rain is sleeting down outside, almost continuously as it has done for the last week. Like tears from heaven, as the angels weep for the World’s Pain, it seems
Continue readingBlaming others
An issue that arises from time to time, is when in multi-party litigation, it is appropriate for a defendant who has lost a case, to have to pay the costs of co-defendants who have been
Continue readingThe undiscovered country
QOCS like so many areas of costs litigation, could be described as the gift that never stops giving. In 2018 alone for example, I found myself arguing two cases in the Court of Appeal on
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