2017

Why would a litigation solicitor wish, when making a retainer with a client to charge the client a fixed fee […]

Part 36 of the Civil Procedure Rules has been around since the initial implementation of the Woolf Reforms in 1999 but

The judgment of the Court of Appeal in the case of Budana v The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust [2017]

One of the perennial areas of work in costs litigation concerns disputes over part 36 offers. Even now, in November 2017,

From time to time, part 36 offers are made and accepted in respect of unallocated claims which if they had run

Already the diary is filling up for the first few months of next year, and so, precipitate as it may

This summer has seen the conclusion of a number of group actions, including the RBS Rights Issue litigation and the

In the last few months I have been undertaking an increasing number of detailed assessments where costs management orders have been

On 16th October 2017 I am speaking at the Law Society Commercial Litigation Conference in Chancery Lane on the subject of

The Civil Proceedings Fees Order 2008 amongst other horrors, provides a set of convoluted provisions for remission of court fees for people of