The new statement of costs goes live on 1 April 2019
We have further updates regarding the new statement of costs following on from our January newsletter. The pilot scheme will operate from 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2021 and…
We have further updates regarding the new statement of costs following on from our January newsletter. The pilot scheme will operate from 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2021 and…
Qualified One way Costs Shifting (QOCS) was introduced in April 2013 for personal injury matters and it is essentially a rule that means a successful defendant cannot recover their costs…
What is the Indemnity Principle? A long-established principle which effectively means that a successful party cannot recover more in legal costs then they are liable to pay their solicitor under…
The case of SR v A Local Authority & Anor (2018), involves the Protected Party (SR), who was an 83-year-old woman who suffered from late onset Alzheimer’s, which was of…
In this personal injury case, the judge had to grapple with an unexpected question – should a Deputy, appointed to manage the personal injury payment made to a brain-injured claimant,…
In Paul Andrews & Anor -v- Retro Computers Ltd & Ors [2019] EWHC B2 (Costs), Master Friston held that an application that the receiving party’s costs should be reduced or disallowed…
We found in Culliford & Anor v Thorpe [2018] EWHC 2532 (Ch) that a payment on account can be made by the Court after the judgement has been made and…
Court of Protection orders imprisonment of a Respondent for falsely impersonating the Protected Party and breaching an injunction. In the case of Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council v Hill (2018), the…