High Court swapped budgets for estimates
In Collins and Others v Ticketmaster UK Ltd v Inbenta Technologies Ltd [2022] Costs LR 123 costs estimates were ordered in place of costs budgets consequential to an application made…
In Collins and Others v Ticketmaster UK Ltd v Inbenta Technologies Ltd [2022] Costs LR 123 costs estimates were ordered in place of costs budgets consequential to an application made…
It is not unusual to incur substantial costs in the run up to CCMC after costs budgets have been submitted. Recovering these costs will be important to the receiving…
Can a solicitor acting for an impecunious client offer indemnity for adverse costs when ATE insurance is unobtainable? Master Rowley rejected the Defendant’s argument that such an agreement was champertous…
Nothing above London 1 guideline hourly rates should be charged to the paying party in the absence of “clear and compelling justification” was the message from LJ Males in his…
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Section D2.2 of the 11th edition of the Commercial Court Guide (2022) sets out how parties should approach costs budgeting where there is disagreement over whether costs management is applicable.…
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The importance of clear client communication on costs budgets has again come to the fore, this time in the context of solicitor-own client costs. When a case is subject to…
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The sanction imposed for failing to file a costs budget when required applied to future costs only in the recent appeal case of Hardy v Skeels (04.03.21, County Court at Stoke). The…
New duties and obligations will be placed on commercial litigators from the 6 April 2021 – Anna Lockyer and Professor Dominic Regan discuss the key features of these changes, their…