One of the more amusing notions in costs, religiously propagated in the comments section of the…
Category: Personal Injury costs
That deadly dust
One of the saddest areas of personal injury litigation, is that sub area of work which…
Costs and clinical negligence claims
Twixmas (that curious period between Christmas and New Year) can be a time for angst, stress,…
Thick and fast
The last few months have seen an outpouring of legal argument, judgment, analysis and statutory reform…
That hard six
Sometimes you just gotta roll the hard six. -Unknown On 2nd February 2023 The Civil Procedure…
Conditional fee agreements and retainer challenges
For many years, disputes about retainers have been at the heart of the “Costs Wars” fought…
Unbowed, unbent, unbroken
Following on from the decision of the Court of Appeal in University Hospitals of Derby and…
Jingle bells
Once one QOCS case arrives, like the number 27 bus, you know that another one will…
QOCS bounces back
QOCS has been called (by me) the gift that never stops giving. I anticipate that when…
Fixing problems
Although the expansion of fixed costs has now been deferred to October 2023 (possibly), for many…