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Category: Retainer

Half life

July 16, 2019 Andrew Hogan Retainer

It is now more than five years since the inelegantly named Cancellation of Contracts made in a Consumer’s Home or Place of Work etc. Regulations 2008 were repealed, it having been belatedly realised by government,

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Twilight’s last gleaming

June 23, 2019 Andrew Hogan Retainer

One of the more interesting points of law that I have argued (alongside and against the rest of the costs Bar) in recent years, was the “assignment point” as it came to be known. The

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T’int right, t’int fair, t’int proper

December 3, 2018 Andrew Hogan Retainer

One of the things that I do from time to time is draft damages based agreements (DBAs) for clients, who having been apprised of the risks of using this form of funding agreement decide to

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High crimes and misdemeanours

October 14, 2018 Andrew Hogan Retainer, Uncategorized

One of the books I read over the summer was by the Secret Barrister: in essence a polemic on the criminal justice system: I rather enjoyed it and you can find her blog here: https://thesecretbarrister.com.

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Making retainers work

August 23, 2018 Andrew Hogan Retainer, Uncategorized

A colleague at the Bar recently asked me what I actually did on a day to day basis, having some vague idea presumably, that the role of costs counsel was to travel the country arguing

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The road not taken

May 24, 2018 Andrew Hogan Access to justice, Retainer

For many years the questions of alternative funding and its availability has been central to disputes about the recovery of costs claimed under a conditional fee agreement. Under regulation 4 of the long since repealed Conditional

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I fought the law

April 22, 2018 Andrew Hogan Access to justice, Retainer, Uncategorized

It has been cynically observed in the author’s presence, that insurance companies only care about fraud, and costs, and only about care about the latter because they regard costs as a species of fraud perpetrated by the

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The end of the road

December 7, 2017 Andrew Hogan Retainer

The judgment of the Court of Appeal in the case of Budana v The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust [2017] EWCA Civ 1980 was handed down on Tuesday of this week and may represent the last pronouncement by

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And the last enemy to be destroyed shall be Death

August 21, 2017 Andrew Hogan Retainer, Uncategorized

Capacity to make a contract arises as in issue in costs disputes, when a paying party wishes to dispute the validity of a retainer, on the basis that it is void or unenforceable because the client lacked

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The back of the queue

February 19, 2017 Andrew Hogan Retainer, Solicitor/own client costs

This post first appeared as an article in the February 2017 issue of Litigation Funding magazine. As 2017 opens, despite predictions that the Brexit process would absorb the attentions of lawmakers and divert scarce resources

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