The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill, implementing the Jackson proposals, comfortably passed its second reading in the House of Commons yesterday with no signs of a Common’s rebellion. However, I am grateful to Professor Dominic Regan’s Blog for pointing out that the act does not seem to deal with qualified one-way costs […]
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Lord Justice Henry’s held in Bailey v IBC Vehicles [1998] EWCA Civ 566 that: “The signature of the bill of costs under the Rules is effectively the certificate by an officer of the Court that the receiving party’s solicitors are not seeking to recover in relation to any item more than they have agreed to
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Mike Scutt, writing in Solicitors Journal, referred to a company called Solicitors Holistic Innovations Tactics & Endeavours Ltd. How did he get away with that?
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Comment appearing on Linkedin discussion forum concerning Jackson implementation: “As a scots lawyer I am reluctant to intrude upon private grief but we have never had CFA’s in Scotland nor recoverable ATE premiums and the world has so far as I am aware from the increasing volume of claims from Scottish claimant solicitors, not yet
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[youtube]j2jNLwg_C4Y[/youtube] Does this mean that Jackson is karma in action for claimant personal injury lawyers? You may need to adjust your security settings or view online if you receive the Legal Costs Blog via email.
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John Foy QC, of 9 Gough Square, and Dominic Regan are giving a free one hour seminar on Costs and Jackson at 5.30pm on 17th May 2011 in London. Rather short notice but apparently they still have some free spaces. Email Andrew Grosvenor: agrosvenor@9goughsquare.co.uk if you are interested.
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No doubt some deals still to be done with those firms whose financial year end is the end of April: billing chaos. Perhaps firms should publish their year end dates and then everyone’s a winner 😉
Amendments have been made to Costs Practice Direction, which came into force on 6 April 2011, which are made to clarify how VAT should be treated in relation to payments to a third party that are shown as disbursements by the legal representatives in bills of costs: “Disbursements not classified as such for VAT purposes
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Dominic Regan writing on Jackson implementation in the New Law Journal: “The good news is that the government is not looking to increase the small claims limit of £1,000 in personal injury claims. That is the end of the good news.”
Lord Justice Jackson’s Review of Civil Litigation Costs‘ recommendations included one that “software should be developed which will … automatically generate schedules for summary assessment or bills for detailed assessment”. Some software developers have already started to produce software that will semi-automatically generate bills. Unfortunately, such software requires synchronisation with expensive case-management software and relies
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