SCCO Costs Practitioners' Group Minutes
For those who haven’t already read them, the Senior Courts Costs Office Costs Practitioners’ Group Minutes of the last meeting can be found here.
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For those who haven’t already read them, the Senior Courts Costs Office Costs Practitioners’ Group Minutes of the last meeting can be found here.
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The press has been reporting on The British Chiropractic Association (BCA) dropping their libel action against science writer Simon Singh. The BCA had sued Dr Singh over a newspaper article in which he alleged that the organisation promoted “bogus treatments”, such as chiropractic for childhood asthma and colic, which were not supported by evidence. Now,
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For those who work in the world of legal costs law it is generally recognised as being, at best, an art rather than a science. However, the other day I stumbled across an attempt to make the process of predicting legal fees more accurate. I don’t know what other people stumble across on the internet
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The long wait is finally over and Dr Mark Friston’s new book Civil Costs: Law and Practice is finally published. It should be starting to ship and arrive in bookshops round about now. Was it worth the wait? Oh, yes. Early drafts may have hinted at it but the final version confirms this book will
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Those of you visiting the Legal Costs Blog today and thinking something looks different do not need to worry or have you eyes tested. The Blog’s previous publishing platform was about to be discontinued meaning that the Blog was about to disappear. Regular readers (God bless both of you) might have thought that would be
The New Law Journal will host a live panel discussion on how Lord Justice Jackson’s proposed legal costs reforms could undermine the viability of personal injury claims and those who run them (or that’s their spin on it anyway). Professor Dominic Regan, a leading authority on civil procedure and costs, will chair the free 30-minute
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District Judge Robert Hill is a member of the Civil Procedure Rules Committee and was a member of the sub-committee which drafted the new RTA Protocol and the consequential changes. Writing in the Law Society Gazette on the new rules he states: "Whatever your question, it is answered in the RTA Protocol or in PD8B
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The rumour mill continues unabated as to whether Lord Justice Jackson’s legal costs review will ever see the light of day. I attended a conference the other week where one of the other speakers informed the audience that Jackson LJ was to take no further part in implementation of his report and would be
More on the 51st Update to the Civil Procedure Rules. The changes come into force on 6 April 2010. CPD 6.4(1)(a) is amended to remove the requirement to file an estimate of costs with an allocation questionnaire in fast track matters. This must be viewed as being a retrograde step. In future, parties in fast
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More from Lord Justice Jackson, being interviewed by Neil Rose, on the Review of Civil Litigation Costs, courtesy of Mobile Doctors: (If you receive the Legal Costs Blog via email you made need to adjust your security settings to view the video.)
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