The recent lobbying by claimant organisations has paid-off as the Government has entirely abandoned plans to implement the Jackson costs reforms. Oh … sorry. I had pre-prepared two different posts in advance of the announcement yesterday to deal with either eventuality. Let’s start again. The recent lobbying by claimant organisations has been a complete waste […]
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The Ministry of Justice will make a statement today as to its response to the Jackson consultation. Press leaks suggest that the government will push ahead with ending the recoverability of success fees and after-the-event insurance premium from the losing side. As usual, Legal Futures is likely to be first to report the details and
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Some interesting thoughts on anonymous comments appearing on websites from Joshua Rozenberg writing in the Law Society Gazette: “Write an article for publication these days and the chances are that it will attract ill-informed comments. No longer content with sending in a letter to the editor and waiting to see if it is printed, readers
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Court fees are due to increase from 4 April 2011. In addition to increases across the board, are increases to the fees for detailed assessment: (a) does not exceed £15,000 – £325 (b) exceeds £15,000 but does not exceed £50,000 – £655 (c) exceeds £50,000 but does not exceed £100,000 – £980 (d) exceeds £100,000
At any one time there are always a number of interesting upcoming legal costs conferences. Unfortunately, these often come at a fairly eye watering price. If I told you there was a full-day costs conference (5.5 CPD hours) in London with speakers including a number of specialist costs counsel such as Gordon Wignall, Simon Brown
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Links to updated Law Society practice notes on VAT on disbursements and VAT increase to 20%, and Bar Council guide on VAT increase now available via the VAT section on Legal Costs Central.
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I recently mentioned access to the Members’ Forum as being one of the benefits of membership of the Association of Costs Lawyers. This is, for obvious reasons, available only to members. Some readers may recall the excellent open forum that there used to be on the Costs Monkey website. Unfortunately, this has been down for
The Court of Appeal decision in Sousa v London Borough of Waltham Forest [2011] EWCA Civ 194 may be (but probably won’t be) the final word on what the law currently is in relation to recoverability of success fees. However, the Court went out of its way to give further support to the Jackson costs
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One of the joys of writing the Legal Costs Blog is the freedom to widely criticise anything that takes my fancy without any sense of responsibility or need to offer constructive alternatives. Like all the best things in life, I suppose this had to end. Through a combination of cajoling and arm twisting, I have
Is arranging a BT telephone conference fee earner work? Should solicitors still expect to be able to charge hourly rates based on having full time, skilled, secretarial staff, when they no longer do?
