A closer look at summary assessment
In the High Court case of ABS Company Ltd v Pantaenius UK Ltd & Ors [2020] EWHC 3720 (Comm), HHJ Pelling QC elected to assess costs at the end of a…
Author: Joanne Chase
COVID-19 update: face to face hearings
HMCTS are consolidating the work of the courts and tribunals into fewer buildings. It has been announced that from Monday 30 March 2020 there will be a network of priority…
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Edition
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Edition The Costs and Litigation Funding Team would like to assure you that during the current ongoing measures to prevent the spread of the COVID-19, whilst we work…
Is a Court Fee Recoverable Inter Partes when a Fee Remission was suitable?
The issue of whether a Court Fee is recoverable by the recieving party, when a fee remission was available, is a contentious one. However, in the recent case of Ivanoy…
Revising Precedent H Costs Budgets – Don’t delay
Don’t delay in applying to revise your Costs Budget if a significant development has occurred in your litigation, and on those occasions where there may have been a delay don’t…
Can you recover Counsel Fee’s for an Advice on Quantum in a £70,000 case?
Dover v Finsbury Food Group plc [2019] EWHC B11 (Costs) What a terrible day for the Defendant to cut a long story short. This was an appeal from a Costs…
A multi-million pound portal claim?
Cable v Liverpool Victoria Insurance – Liverpool County Court (Appeal No 128 of 2018) This was a case which should have been relatively straight forward, at least that’s what the…
Guidance on Proportionality… better late than never
West & Demouilpied v Stockport NHS Foundation Trust This case provided guidance regarding two key areas, the recovery of block rated ATE Premiums and proportionality under the ‘new’ test of…