Falling short when advising client of ‘shortfall’
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…
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…
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…
More changes are coming to costs in the latest amendments to the CPR – Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2021, which comes into force on 6 April 2021, and the 127th…
In the privacy case of Pallett v MGN Ltd [2021], the Defendant sought to exploit an anomaly in the Part 36 rules by accepting an offer outside the relevant period and inviting…