Retainer – Costs Barrister

Half life

It is now more than five years since the inelegantly named Cancellation of Contracts made in a Consumer’s Home or

One of the more interesting points of law that I have argued (alongside and against the rest of the costs

One of the things that I do from time to time is draft damages based agreements (DBAs) for clients, who

One of the books I read over the summer was by the Secret Barrister: in essence a polemic on the

A colleague at the Bar recently asked me what I actually did on a day to day basis, having some

For many years the questions of alternative funding and its availability has been central to disputes about the recovery of

It has been cynically observed in the author’s presence, that insurance companies only care about fraud, and costs, and only about care

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

Capacity to make a contract arises as in issue in costs disputes, when a paying party wishes to dispute the validity of

This post first appeared as an article in the February 2017 issue of Litigation Funding magazine. As 2017 opens, despite