For seven hundred years the common law courts set their faces against strangers to a case…
Author: Andrew Hogan
Construing costs management orders
Costs budgeting and costs management has evolved over the last 5 years substantially. Evolution it should…
Issues based costs orders and part 36
One dilemma that arises from time to time is how a court is to balance the…
QOCS and fundamental dishonesty II
Assuming that the issues have been sufficiently telegraphed to the putatively dishonest party, how is fundamental…
QOCS and fundamental dishonesty
It is sad to say, that fraud is present in a significant number of cases in…
If I could turn back time
One of the vagaries of the costs management regime, is that it has to function in…
2019
2019 is about to begin with the Navy tussling with asylum seekers in the Channel, the…
Weak discretion and part 36
In 2018 there have been a number of interesting cases on part 36 including my own…
Spring dawning
We have reached the dog days of the year, the darkest point of winter, where one…
Clawing back the deficit
As has been wisely observed, once a disastrous loss has been sustained at trial, the loser’s…